Hygon, chinese semiconductor company, is now making Zen-based x86 CPUs using a licensing agreement it signed with AMD in 2016. Dhyana x86 processors are copies of AMD’s own Zen-based EPYC processor. AMD was paid $293 million in cash and will get royalty payments from unit sales.
The Zen-based Dhyana would only be used in exascale supercomputers if they were used with more powerful accelerator, such as a future version of the Chinese-built Matrix-2000. However, more licensing agreements could follow for AMD’s next-generation Zen 2 CPU or maybe even their Radeon GPUs.
Dhyana is part of China’s plan to develop a domestic chipmaking capability. China could also choose to license x86, Arm, and OpenPower architectures. The completely open source RISC-V architecture, which is being considered by the EU for future supercomputers, could be yet another option for China.
Europe supercomputer chips
Europe is developing their own supercomputer chips to power future exascale supercomputers. They are developing Arm and RISC-V chips.
The first generation of these HPC processors are expected to be delivered before 2020. They will be used for pre-exascale supercomputers scheduled to be deployed across the EU in the 2020 to 2021 timeframe. The second-generation chips will be in Europe’s first exascale systems in 2023 and 2024. EuroHPC is leading the work to catch to the US, China, and Japan in high-performance computing technology.
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I should add…I’m not Brian, or a mod. The is Pleb legation. ever pining for the good ol’ days of discus
umm….how I ended up with this username, I can’t say…but I will say this, Intel is going to face some serious challenge in the next 10 years because their compiler will no longer be preeminant in the developing markets.
I should add…I’m not Brian or a mod. The is Pleb legation. ever pining for the good ol’ days of discus
umm….how I ended up with this username I can’t say…but I will say this Intel is going to face some serious challenge in the next 10 years because their compiler will no longer be preeminant in the developing markets.
AMD has lost to Intel, but with the help from China and the EU Intel can be in big problem soon.
AMD has lost to Intel but with the help from China and the EU Intel can be in big problem soon.
Do not sell any tech to china. It is very foolish. China will only copy your tech, and place a different name on it and sell it to YOUR customers for 10 cents each. Then, china will use your tech and place it in their military technology and threaten western countries. You are fools to sell any tech to china.
selling technology to china is a very dumb idea. and a very short sighted idea. You AMD and the rest of the world will pay dearly for it. They china, will squeeze you out of the market and take away all your customers. china will copy these chips and put their own name brand on it and tell it for 10 cents each. And will use these tech to power their new generation of military weapons to threaten western countries. You fools to sell china any technology.
I thought that the Intel-AMD agreement prevented transitive use of the x86 license. Could Intel brig suit agains AMD for this agreement?
Do not sell any tech to china. It is very foolish. China will only copy your tech and place a different name on it and sell it to YOUR customers for 10 cents each. Then china will use your tech and place it in their military technology and threaten western countries. You are fools to sell any tech to china.
selling technology to china is a very dumb idea. and a very short sighted idea. You AMD and the rest of the world will pay dearly for it. They china will squeeze you out of the market and take away all your customers. china will copy these chips and put their own name brand on it and tell it for 10 cents each. And will use these tech to power their new generation of military weapons to threaten western countries. You fools to sell china any technology.
I thought that the Intel-AMD agreement prevented transitive use of the x86 license. Could Intel brig suit agains AMD for this agreement?
How to copy something the American won’t let you have it? Perhaps it is an unique way of American exceptionalism that they even call Chinese creation “copying” though this copying is copying thru the thin air.
US government fined many foreign companies tens of billions for breaking US sanctions and embargo, real or fabricated, there is no reason for the US government not to fine AMD billions that China is building domestic AMD chips.
How to copy something the American won’t let you have it? Perhaps it is an unique way of American exceptionalism that they even call Chinese creation copying”” though this copying is copying thru the thin air.”””
US government fined many foreign companies tens of billions for breaking US sanctions and embargo real or fabricated there is no reason for the US government not to fine AMD billions that China is building domestic AMD chips.
How to copy something the American won’t let you have it? Perhaps it is an unique way of American exceptionalism that they even call Chinese creation “copying” though this copying is copying thru the thin air.
US government fined many foreign companies tens of billions for breaking US sanctions and embargo, real or fabricated, there is no reason for the US government not to fine AMD billions that China is building domestic AMD chips.
I thought that the Intel-AMD agreement prevented transitive use of the x86 license. Could Intel brig suit agains AMD for this agreement?
Do not sell any tech to china. It is very foolish. China will only copy your tech, and place a different name on it and sell it to YOUR customers for 10 cents each. Then, china will use your tech and place it in their military technology and threaten western countries. You are fools to sell any tech to china.
selling technology to china is a very dumb idea. and a very short sighted idea. You AMD and the rest of the world will pay dearly for it. They china, will squeeze you out of the market and take away all your customers. china will copy these chips and put their own name brand on it and tell it for 10 cents each. And will use these tech to power their new generation of military weapons to threaten western countries. You fools to sell china any technology.
AMD has lost to Intel, but with the help from China and the EU Intel can be in big problem soon.
I should add…I’m not Brian, or a mod. The is Pleb legation. ever pining for the good ol’ days of discus
umm….how I ended up with this username, I can’t say…but I will say this, Intel is going to face some serious challenge in the next 10 years because their compiler will no longer be preeminant in the developing markets.