News Chinese PC Maker Powerstar Rebrands Intel CPU as the P3-01105

[Admin]

This looks like another Chinese tech rebrand which is using slight-of-hand to claim that it is domestically developed.

Chinese PC Maker Powerstar Rebrands Intel CPU as the P3-01105 : Read more

 

[bit_user]

Chinese tech firms can benefit from attractive subsidies by developing and launching "domestic products." If that is true, it also explains how Innosilicon touted its Fantasy graphics cards as "domestic desktop GPUs," but later, we saw UK-based ImgTec confirm that they used the PowerVR architecture.

I assume it's legit for them to use IP from other sources. If not, then you're saying they have to design everything from the PCIe interface to the memory controller, which is pretty nuts.

Maybe, once the Chinese CPU and GPU industry gets their legs under them, it would make sense to try and scrub any foreign IP from their products, but that's definitely at least a stretch goal, at this point.

It's also not remotely comparable to simply re-labeling finished foreign products!

 

[Vanderlindemedia]

AMD does it too with the first generation of it's CPU's.

 

[sherhi]

This is probably one of those copyright related topics and I would give max 3-4 years of rights to a company, squeeze all you can out of that time and let others lower the price of older tech to the ground so we can go further as a society.

Anyway, chinese are not that far behind as we in the west think (thanks to mainstream media).

 

[bit_user]

AMD does it too with the first generation of it's CPU's.

Does what? You're saying that Chinese sellers relabeled them for their domestic market?

You're not referring to this, are you?

AMD–Chinese joint venture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That was a one-time deal, happened > 5 years ago, and it involved both AMD and Chinese IP. Definitely not a simple relabeling job. And it proved vital for giving AMD enough capital to get Ryzen to market.

 

[waltc3]

Years ago, long before AMD's k7 arrived, Chinese resellers were constantly relabeling low-end Intel CPUs to match higher-end Intel CPUs with overclocking and silk-screening (similar to this example). It was this practice by Chinese retailers that prompted Intel to go to CPU MHz clock locking. This looks like something different--maybe Intel trying to get around the recent US government restrictions on sales to Chinese firms? Interesting.

 

[Avro Arrow]

AMD does it too with the first generation of it's CPU's.

I think that the word you were looking for is "did" not "does" because it was back in 1975. You're right though, AMD's first microprocessor was a reverse-engineered Intel 8080. The difference is that AMD paid Intel for cross-licencing and the two companies became allied. In fact, when IBM demanded a reliable second-source for the Intel 8088, Intel selected AMD as that second-source. So that situation did end up being a bit different.

Don't get me wrong, I honestly don't care if the Chinese did do this to Intel (or anyone else for that matter) because these billion-dollar corporations have abused their positions for decades.