#data_center_processors

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Based on RISC-V cores The Chinese company SophGo is developing a processor based on the RISC-V architecture, using solutions from the American company SiFive. [caption id="attachment_82463" align="aligncenter" width="600"] 64-core processor[/caption] The processor, called the SG2380, has 16 SiFive P670 cores, each roughly equivalent in performance to a Cortex-A77, a SiFive X280 AI/ML accelerator, and an AXT-16-512 GPU from Imagination Technologies. The Chinese company SophGo is creating a 64-core processor based on American SiFive technologies In addition, SophGo has already announced the SG2044 SoC, which will be released next year. It will already offer 64 processor cores, support for PCIe 5.0 and LPDDR5x. Both solutions will be produced using the 12 nm process technology, apparently at the facilities of the Chinese SMIC, since initially the SiFive cores, which SophGo uses, are focused on much more modern technology processes. Thus, SophGo is not subject to the latest US sanctions, since they do not apply to the RISC-V architecture. The popularity of this architecture has been growing recently, and American sanctions may make RISC-V an even more popular solution specifically in China.

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It has 80 Arm cores While Chinese video cards are very far from modern solutions from AMD, Nvidia, and Intel, Chinese processors are developing at a very impressive pace. Phytium has shown off its new processor, which is capable of competing with AMD CPUs based on the Zen 3 architecture. [caption id="attachment_71250" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD Epyc on Zen 3[/caption] Chinese Arm processor capable of competing with 24-core AMD Epyc on Zen 3. More precisely, the company compares its FTC870 with the server AMD Epyc 7443. Let us recall that the latter has 24 cores, a TDP of 200 W, and operates at frequencies up to 4 GHz. The FTC870, in turn, is based on the Arm architecture and operates at a frequency of only 3 GHz. The new product has 80 cores and 64 MB of third-level cache. There is also an eight-channel DDR5-4800 controller and 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes. [caption id="attachment_71251" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD Epyc on Zen 3[/caption] Interestingly, the company planned to release such a CPU back in 2021, but due to US sanctions the process has slowed down, so such CPUs will only be released now.