On May 6 this year, Boyd Computer Systems Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Powerstar") held a press conference to officially release the Powerstar chip based on the x86 architecture. Li Ruijie, chairman of Baode Group, also proposed the goal of annual sales of 1.5 million pieces of the first-generation Stormcore processor.
According to the introduction of Baode at that time, Baode Powerstar chip is based on x86 architecture, with strong performance and mature ecosystem, which is a solid step taken by Baode on the road of independent innovation, and is a key part of building a domestic machine industry chain, and is committed to making greater contributions to the development of China's computing industry.
However, as we all know, the X86 architecture is a patent of Intel, and for some historical reasons, only AMD and VIA have X86 licenses, and domestic X86 chip manufacturers Megachip and Haiguang are respectively through VIA and AMD to establish a joint venture to obtain X86 authorization. Therefore, after the release of Boyd's Powerstar chip, it also triggered speculation that it may just be an "relabel" product of Intel CPUs.
According to the official picture, the burst core processor model is "PL PSTAR P3-01105", the frequency is 3.7GHz, although no more specific specifications have been announced, but its appearance and Intel LGA1200 package of the 10th generation Core is completely consistent, combined with the number, frequency, it seems to be a replica of i3-10105: 14nm, 4 cores and 8 threads, main frequency 3.7-4.4GHz, L3 cache 6MB, core UHD 630, thermal design power consumption 65W.
△ Picture: The first generation of Storm Core on the left, and the Core i3-10105 on the right
According to the latest GeekBench running score library, the PSTAR P3-01105, codenamed Comet Lake processor, uses an LGA 1200 socket, is manufactured on a 14nm process, has a base frequency of 3.7 GHz, a turbo frequency of 4.4 GHz, an L3 cache of 6MB, a core display of UHD 630, a frequency of 1.1 GHz, and a TDP of 65W.
That said, the so-called burst core processor may actually be the Core i3-10105. Of course, this is not that Boyd bought Intel's CPU to "change the standard" by himself, and the two sides may have reached some kind of deep cooperation.
An industry insider said that the CPUID itself was written by Intel in Fuse, and to show PSTAR P3-01105, Intel can only modify it itself. So the visual inspection is that the two sides have reached some kind of cooperation. It may be that I saw that Haiguang made a profit, so I came up with such a customized domestic X86 processor.
Editor: Xinzhixun - Ronin Sword