Sunday, May 7th 2023
PowerLeader Announces x86 CPU for the Chinese Market, Looks like an Intel CPU
Rather unexpectedly, a mostly unknown Chinese company called PowerLeader—who seems to have mainly been in the server market space until now—has launched an unheard of x86 compatible CPU. There's no product information on the company website, not even a press release on the CPU which was announced only yesterday according to IT Home. Fortunately, there's a picture of the new CPU, which gives us a few more details. The CPU appears to be called the Pstar P3 and has the model name P3-01105. Luckily the clock frequency of the CPU, which is 3.7 GHz, is also printed on the chip.
However, a closer look at the picture would have most people that are interested in tech scratching their heads, as it appears to be an Intel CPU using the LGA-1200 socket. Even the model name and what is supposedly the spec ID of the CPU, follows Intel's style of naming its CPUs. The comments on IT Home and elsewhere, all suggest that this is simply a re-branded Intel Core i3-10105 CPU, although it's entirely possible this is a chip that only looks like an Intel CPU. It's entirely possible that this is some kind of unannounced licensing deal by Intel, but if so, it would be the first such licensing deal Intel has done since the 286 days, to our knowledge. PowerLeader claims that the CPU is specifically designed for desktop computers and the company is expecting to sell 1.5 million units per year.
Sources:
IT Home, PowerLeader, via @harukaze5719
However, a closer look at the picture would have most people that are interested in tech scratching their heads, as it appears to be an Intel CPU using the LGA-1200 socket. Even the model name and what is supposedly the spec ID of the CPU, follows Intel's style of naming its CPUs. The comments on IT Home and elsewhere, all suggest that this is simply a re-branded Intel Core i3-10105 CPU, although it's entirely possible this is a chip that only looks like an Intel CPU. It's entirely possible that this is some kind of unannounced licensing deal by Intel, but if so, it would be the first such licensing deal Intel has done since the 286 days, to our knowledge. PowerLeader claims that the CPU is specifically designed for desktop computers and the company is expecting to sell 1.5 million units per year.
42 Comments on PowerLeader Announces x86 CPU for the Chinese Market, Looks like an Intel CPU
Good reality check, this news :)
These chips probably all going to Russia?
Outside companies can only try to compete with the copies, put in effort to have the superior product at a good price and convince the chinese people of that.
but in the meantime chinese cars are (going to be) sold elsewhere in the world under local brandnames soooo yeah.
Possibly it's Intel silicon that's been modified so that identifies it as power leader chip instead. Why would they do that? Sanctions... Can ship them to Russia, or wherever else official chips are blocked.
Different ball game to shipping official products through third countries like Turkey.
I think the western world has been very lenient towards these dictatorships.
From what I know of the Chinese government, this would be a comical product created to comply with Beijing's demand for "full localization". China has been trying to push for a localized replacement for government computers and other electronic equipment because they are convinced that foreign companies like Intel and Nvidia will leave backdoors in the equipment they sell to China and cause theft of secrets. But, unfortunately, the Chinese industry is not strong enough to make CPUs with adequate performance, so these Intel CPUs in a new shell have been created to maintain the ridiculous pride of the leaders while still providing adequate performance.
Also, I don't think this CPU was provided to countries that were sanctioned such as Russia and Iran. Just because China doesn't explicitly support Ukraine doesn't mean that it will support Russia unconditionally. Although not sanctioning or condemning Russia would already be another form of support. For China, relations with the United States are also quite important and it is unlikely that international disputes will arise over this matter.
Not one nation would attempt a war, with a country we are all soooo freaking dependent on, over them copying a processor...This is because we literally make everything over there, what is to stop them from, at the end of assembly, just throwing their own brand on the product and then selling a few on the side as theirs?
This is why companies tend to make parts of the product in one factory and other parts in others and then have all that assembled somewhere else as well just so not one company has all the information and tools, but obviously that costs more money to do for the original company.
SOOOO much of what you are using is just from china and yeah PLENTY of it is perfectly fine stuff.
The only problem is just the unfair competition because china does not care about its people, so everything is super cheap to have made there thus products just as good as products made here are just way cheaper, so you buy chinese.