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Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU

posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 26 2020, @07:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the competition-is-good,-right? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Intel and AMD shouldn't panic yet, but this Chinese vendor has repacked a Xeon CPU:

Jintide Montage might sound like the name of a punk group, but it's not. In fact, the Montage is an x86 processor with PrC (Pre-Check) and DSC (Dynamic Security Check) technologies that can be used in Jintide or other server platforms.

It shares common DNA with Intel, AMD and VIA and uses Skylake Xeon silicon at its core - and has already entered mass production.

According to the marketing materials, Jintide uses Tsinghua University's DSC technology to achieve "high-speed IO tracing, memory tracing and CPU behavioral checking via its built-in security check engine."

[...] In other words, expect it to be used for anything from website hosting to VPN and cloud storage.

From the available information, we can tell this is not a consumer processor and there's no Core CPU coming from Jintide any time soon. The Montage is also aimed exclusively at the Chinese market, perhaps extending to the country's close allies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @09:30PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @09:30PM (#999381)

    How can these Chinamen just copy Intel's IP? And why is Israel suddenly so interested in what the PRC is up to?

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @09:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @09:38PM (#999383)

    Nothing copied, from TFA:
    The processor was born of an official partnership with Intel and is presented as a hardware security enhanced server CPU

  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday May 26 2020, @09:52PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 26 2020, @09:52PM (#999390) Journal

    Patents are nation level laws, so if China wanted to, it could just "nationalize" them. That doesn't seem to be what's happening here, but if it were there would be no grounds for complaint. The US has done that in the past. I believe that in some technical areas it still does it.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday May 27 2020, @01:16AM (1 child)

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Wednesday May 27 2020, @01:16AM (#999449)

    And why is Israel suddenly so interested in what the PRC is up to?

    While I can't find any reference to Israel in the article there is nothing sudden about Israel and China being interested in each others tech, Since way back in 1992 Israel has been trading high tech stuff with China. [nytimes.com]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @03:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @03:17AM (#999495)

      》 While I can't find any reference to Israel in the article

      Intel.