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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First I’ve heard of these so I looked into it

  It’s basically a continuation of VIA’s x86 tech (they sold the cyrix processors for a while if anyone remembers them). I assumed it was just copyright theft, but these are legitimately licensed x86 chips.

  Apparently the current generation of these is like the Ryzen 3000 series, but I can’t find any actual benchmarks, so I’ll take that with a bit of salt. I doubt they will have the same power efficiency as the OP ones since the clock is apparently at 3.7GHz.

  This is much cooler than I initially realised though. I viable 3rd player can keep prices down

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The cyrix line of cpu was always far behind intel and amd. They ran super hot too. One time we wanted to see how much we could overclock one and it burned itself through the motherboard!

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    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Offtopic, but I’ve seen an arcade monitor where a component (resistor, most likely) had burned a hole through the PCB and was gone… and the monitor was still operational!

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  • Fudoshin@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think I had a Cyrix 233 at one point in the 90s. Can’t believe we’ve got calculators that are faster than that now!

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the current generation of these is like the Ryzen 3000 series

    They are not like Ryzens, they are actual Ryzens made in collaboration with AMD. They have a few differences but its pretty much the same chip, same performance.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought the Chinese AMD chips were called Hygon or something like that?

      In fact a quick google suggests these are two different CPU lines, but I might be getting it wrong

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That checks out

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Given how fast China can progress when they put their minds to it, this is worrying.

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  • AnomalousBit@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, when you’ve spent the past 20 years stealing intellectual property and conducting industrial espionage is it really that hard to get to this point?

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    • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Actually they were just exchanging their cheap labour and garbage disposal for the West’s collective greed. So its only fair they return in kind.

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  • max@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t have the EUV machines needed to make the most modern chips. Only DUV so far.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huawei recently released a phone with an SoC using that tech. So they have it in some capacity.

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• sounddrill@linux.community ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have this wyse Cx0… runs kolibriOS now

  It runs some via chip from the early 2000s despite being from 2011

  I think this is similar or maybe a lil faster

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