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Chinese company, so sure industrial espionage would be the first guess. But to be fair lots of folks reverse engineered the 486 (as shown in TFA). If the perf
by kjs3 2y ago
Chinese company, so sure industrial espionage would be the first guess. But to be fair lots of folks reverse engineered the 486 (as shown in TFA). If the performance analysis it to be believed, something was improved, so it's not an exact copy.
- rasz 2y ago? performance is same down to same cycles
- kjs3 2y agoPls read the article, in particular note the part about power consumption.
- RecycledEle 2y agoThe cycles per instruction were identical for every instruction. Power usage dropped by almost a watt or about 25%.
- hakfoo 2y agoIf the application was critical enough, then I could see the effort in making a cycle-accurate, bug-accurate clone.