[HN Gopher] Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested
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       Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2020-12-31 02:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tomshardware.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com)
        
       | mandelken wrote:
       | (This is from April 2020 -> could use (2020) in the title)
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | What's the equivalent level of performance in terms of AMD/Intel
       | CPUs? Sandy Bridge or thereabouts? Because for the past few
       | years, PCs have basically been "fast enough" for most things,
       | super-inefficient monstrosities like Electron excluded. In fact
       | my "daily driver" is probably slower than this Chinese CPU.
       | 
       | Incidentally, there is an interesting and active market in
       | Chinese motherboards with X79/X99 chipsets, which are from that
       | era, along with used Xeons and such.
       | 
       | Obviously those who place performance above all else will not be
       | buying these.
        
       | 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
       | Would be interested to know what design software they use for
       | these chips.
        
       | beervirus wrote:
       | Slow as molasses, power hungry, and almost certainly backdoored
       | by the CCP. No thank you.
        
         | eloff wrote:
         | There's no way to trust Chinese hardware or software thanks to
         | the lack of freedom in China for both individuals and
         | companies. But the domestic market there is huge, as is the
         | global market that doesn't care about security from Chinese
         | state hackers.
         | 
         | Apple's CPU wasn't that interesting at the start either, it's
         | early days yet.
        
         | disown wrote:
         | Pretty much everyone tech component is manufactured in china...
         | Also "CCP" gives you away. Should be more sneaky about it
         | rather than being so up front.
        
         | ur-whale wrote:
         | >and almost certainly backdoored by the CCP. No thank you.
         | 
         | Not that I disagree with you, but to be fair, there's no way to
         | tell any modern CPU that's in your computer hasn't been
         | backdoored.
         | 
         | Intel CPU's most certainly do not have a glowing reputation in
         | that department.
        
       | drzaiusapelord wrote:
       | I wonder if Windows ARM will be so mature that by the time these
       | groups get x86 parity with Intel, it won't matter outside of
       | specialized high-performance applications like gaming because
       | we'll be migrating to ARM by then anyway.
        
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