I have VIA / Centaur processor and they are enough me for my daily office work, multimedia. Why wouldn't I buy a Zhaoxin / Centaur processor if it would be more powerful than my VIA Processor. This is called competition and especially free choice.
If its enough for you fine, but I fail to see why you keep pushing it here, when its its NOT fine for the rest of the world. And it has no competition. You can buy older AMD/Intel processors for $5 on ebay. And they are still faster.
Sounds more like a patriotic move than a common sense, but hey, you are free to pick what you like and support your local tech. Just don't expect people to be jumping on your bandwagon.
AMD in the days of AMD FX processors sounded more like a patriotic move?
I agree more competition is good and interesting, nothing to be angry about. Thanks for the posts, what I would be worried about most is chineese spies uehehe but I don't do much exciting things to be spied on.The only thing that matters is that they replace Intel and AMD processors.
I agree more competition is good and interesting, nothing to be angry about. Thanks for the posts, what I would be worried about most is chineese spies uehehe but I don't do much exciting things to be spied on.
As a first gen produdct, i think they will do the job, even though performance isn't anything to write home about.
I think the point is just the opposite. It's an alternate x86 choice without the current backdoors, meant for government computers in China. This might make them more secure to international hacking attempts. It will at least take significant resources from anyone desiring to find vulnerabilities of these new chips to research vulnerabilities.
I think the point is just the opposite. It's an alternate x86 choice without the current backdoors, meant for government computers in China. This might make them more secure to international hacking attempts. It will at least take significant resources from anyone desiring to find vulnerabilities of these new chips to research vulnerabilities.
Most productivity applications do not take a huge amount of CPU resources. As a first gen produdct, i think they will do the job, even though performance isn't anything to write home about.
I wonder if it will end up being a more secure route, vs say Piledriver CPUs and APUs (which are the last gen without the "security" coprocessors introduced afterwards (Kaveri and newer).
you know you sound silly, they said its for Chinese government computers, you think china should choose usa designed chips over the ones they design themselves because they trust usa more then they trust themselves? lulz thanks for the laughs.At the end of the day, you are choosing between Chinese backdoors and American backdoors. Both chips will be compromised. I would personally choose the American backdoors, as for all of their flaws, I trust the US government more than the Chinese Communist Party.
they said its for Chinese government computers
you know you sound silly, they said its for Chinese government computers, you think china should choose usa designed chips over the ones they design themselves because they trust usa more then they trust themselves? lulz thanks for the laughs.
And I don't think anyone outside the PROC would seriously consider these chips. They are just awful compared to Intel and AMD.
I think what people are trying to say is the alternative CPU scene is a little frustrating to follow. In this case, barring an all-star dev team full of former AMD, Intel and Qualcomm engineers, Zhaoxin/VIA will probably always be behind the likes of Intel and AMD.
So, not only is it slower than a quad core, its WAY overpriced $617 ?? I could get a 3900x motherboard and cheap memory for that !Another review from US
It makes sense for the Chinese market, because they want Chinese backdoors instead of American ones. For literally any non-Chinese customers, it doesn't make sense.
They could manufacture it at SMIC and have it subsidized by the chinese government.
It's practically meant for all american enemies like Iran or Russia but it could also work well for other arrangements like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and most African or Southeast Asian nations ...
I doubt the Saudis would waste their time on anything that slow. Plus really, if they are worried about hardware backdoors, why would they buy anything from Zhaoxin?
The Russians are pushing Elbrus. Or trying to anyway. We'll see how far that goes.
there's no point in an alliance ...