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> Mysterious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoxin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoxin

• Qem 1y ago
  There are others too. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_x86_manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_x86_manufacturers
  • senkora 1y ago
    Specifically, the AMD-Chinese joint venture seems like one of the more probable choices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_venture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_vent...
• tssva 1y ago
  Zhaoxin is addressed in the article and also why the author considers it unlikely they are the "corporate entity" in question.
• ok123456 1y ago
  Either Chinese or Russian x86 clones. Diplomatically not named.
  • anticodon 1y ago
    There's only Russian (Soviet) clone of 8086. There was some finished work on cloning 286 but they were never produced in series, since USSR collapsed.
    • Tevo 1y ago
      Didn't one of the Elbrus CPUs have an x86 translation layer in hardware? Trying to get that to execute code at reasonable speeds, Transmeta style, to use as a replacement to western-supplied hardware wherever you have an explicit need for x86 wouldn't sound particularly far-fetched to me, if I didn't know so little about what's going on within Russia.
      • anticodon 1y ago
        It seems there's only software emulation of x86 on Elbrus.