China's Powerstar CPU Seemingly 'Confirmed' as Intel Silicon via Geekbench

[hist78]

China's Powerstar CPU Seemingly 'Confirmed' as Intel Silicon via Geekbench

We were already pretty sure it was Comet Lake chip, but here is the smoking gun.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[hist78]

I'm not sure if it's funny or silly, or both.

 

[tonyget]

I'm not sure if it's funny or silly, or both.

Neither. It's Intel's trick，hopefully to get some Chinese gov orders. Powerstar is Intel's official distributor in China.

Many Chinese gov orders forbid foreign products，so Intel is just trying to bypass the rule by letting their distributor release the same product with a different name

 

[hist78]

Neither. It's Intel's trick，hopefully to get some Chinese gov orders. Powerstar is Intel's official distributor in China.

Many Chinese gov orders forbid foreign products，so Intel is just trying to bypass the rule by letting their distributor release the same product with a different name

So Chinese government doesn't know it's a trick?

 

[tonyget]

So Chinese government doesn't know it's a trick?

Well，the Chinese gov has not purchase any Powerstar's CPU as of now

 

[Maximus]

So Chinese government doesn't know it's a trick?

I believe lower levels definitely know but higher levels may not.
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It's a win-win-win situation:
Intel: Sell more chips
Powerstar: Get more government's funding
Government: Claim China makes a key step in chip independence

 

[freshshine1]

Neither. It's Intel's trick，hopefully to get some Chinese gov orders. Powerstar is Intel's official distributor in China.

Many Chinese gov orders forbid foreign products，so Intel is just trying to bypass the rule by letting their distributor release the same product with a different name

Generally curious, by the way you're saying is Intel has been doing this for a long time to sell chips into China. Is this not regulated by the recent US sanctions on selling US designed chips into China? Or is this chip not advanced enough to be controlled (but we have Seagate getting fined $300 million not too long ago for selling HDDs)

Could this be another of government's double standard because they need Intel to make chips in the USA great again so they're just turning a blind eye to it

 

[Maximus]

Generally curious, by the way you're saying is Intel has been doing this for a long time to sell chips into China. Is this not regulated by the recent US sanctions on selling US designed chips into China? Or is this chip not advanced enough to be controlled (but we have Seagate getting fined $300 million not too long ago for selling HDDs)

Could this be another of government's double standard because they need Intel to make chips in the USA great again so they're just turning a blind eye to it

All Intel typical desktop CPU up to 13gen i9 can be bought in China without any problem. These products are not regulated by US sanctions.
The reasons of this weird situation happens because (1) China government encourages or enforces public agency to buy products made by China's companies (2) China government gives enormous amount of money to local semiconductor companies to support China's chip independence.