These new components would essentially be the processors of the North American brand, but with a new name, and which the Asian company would have started selling as its own, so we could not speak of new chipsets as such.
Intel’s new Chinese CPUs?
This is not the first time that Asian companies have been caught selling AMD or Intel products as their own. PowerStar’s X86 processors are a good example of this, as they were essentially 10th generation Intel Comet Lake. Now it seems we’re seeing the same thing again, although Montage’s own company calls them Jintide.
To find out this we don’t need to investigate much, we can just look at the Product SKU, and we will already have their origin, since these would be; C8558P, C4514Y, C5520+, C6542Y and C6548Y+. Which coincide with those of Intel Xeon.
In addition, apart from this very clear data, we have another one that leaves no doubt that it would be the same processors, since its top of the range has 48 cores, 96 threads, an L3 cache of 260 MB and 350 W of TDP, exactly the same as Intel.
The only difference we would see compared to the Americans would be in questions of security, necessary to be sold in China, therefore, in Montage CPUs, the new Jintide, would use the PrC (Pre-check) and DSC (Dynamic Security Check) functions to strengthen security. Something that Intel doesn’t have natively.
It only took 4 days to rename the processors and ship them with their servers. A record time which further reaffirms the situation, something very common on the Asian market.
Montage Technology has not disclosed the price of these processors, although it is understood that they cannot be cheaper than those of Intel, since they acquire them directly from this brand and resell them as their own, so they will always have to have a more cost high if they intend to generate profits. Which won’t be difficult for them to do, because there are few products that meet all the country’s regulations, so even if they sold twice as much, it’s likely they would have no problem removing all their stock.
In summary, we have a Chinese company that buys a processor from Intel to be able to change its name and the four necessary little details and thus be able to sell it legally in a country marked by international trade restrictions. Something that is becoming common in these countries.
And you, what do you think of this practice: do you consider it legal? Do you think it’s fair that while the rest of the world pays one price for a component, they have to buy it twice as much? Montage is doing very well, since 2019, with the first version of Jintide, they carry out the same process, always with Intel CPUs.
