Another player on the processor market … but in China

… but in “collaboration” with AMD. How many twists and turns! This time we were provided by the Chinese company Hygon, which started to produce Dhyana processors based on AMD patents. However, their creation looks simpler than it really is …

We can describe the whole thing with our traditional proverb – the wolf is full and the sheep is whole. AMD has just secured another source of income, but the beginnings of this date back to 2016. Then the Reds created a company with several companies present there, Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment, which was to produce SoC chips, processors on the x86 architecture. However, this activity was loss-making, but that will change soon. The above-mentioned THATIC has recently acquired HMC and Hygon. AMD owns 51% of the former … and now it’s time for some twisted fun.

Under the Intel-AMD license for processors on the x86 architecture, companies had to somehow finalize the legal issues. So (at least officially) AMD has released its HMC patents so that they can produce their own processors while building on their achievements. HMC then outsources the design of the processors to Hygon, which goes back to HMC, which are then produced by global factories, to finally pass through the hands of HMC, which re-hands over the final processors to Hygon, which sells them exclusively on the Chinese market. From the legal point of view – everything is buttoned up, and Intel has nothing to say. (The complexity of this made me realize why I hate legal issues.)

Out of all this hustle and bustle, ultimately Dhyana server chips are created, which are twin similar to EPYC processors. Apparently so much that a small change in Linux systems is enough to switch it to working with the “new” unit. It all boils down to one thing, which is the money that will now fall into AMD’s pocket, because in China US-China trade regulations prevent the sale of Xeons.

Source: TomsHardware