The bone processors of Intel for servers currently have a problem in China, and there is a company in this country that sells these chips under its own name, eliminating any trace of the brand that originally created these processors. This is not new, since the same company that currently sells the Xeon 6E processors as its own, had already done so with the previous version, also indicating on these chips that they had been manufactured by itself.
Every day we can see that many companies try to imitate all types of products, and China is actually a country known, among other things, for having quite lax intellectual property laws. That is why we might be surprised to see how Intel can leave aside this type of use of its processors, knowing that the company Montage Technology sells them as its own, so we have doubts that it is about an exchange. agreement to be able to circumvent some of the American restrictions.
Intel server processors rebranded and sold by another company as their own
In general, we know that currently in the server processor market three brands dominate, namely NVIDIA, Intel and AMD, and although the former has gained great fame in recent years for its advances in AI, due to US sanctions against China, Intel is the one that dominates the market in this country. This obviously implies that the brand that created the Xeon processors has a practically unique market in the Eastern country, since neither NVIDIA nor AMD can export most of their chips, Intel being the only company to have concluded a agreement allowing them to export certain products. .
But each time, the restrictions are much more severe, which has led even the CEO of Intelto indicate that you are missing a walk very big for not being able to sell their products China, thus encouraging the development of new high-speed technologies by the Asian country. This is obviously a problem for American companies, since they cannot increase their revenue by selling their products to one of the countries that can buy them the most.
In fact, as we well know, due to tensions between the United States and China, many companies based in this country want to avoid using products from the United States as much as possible. The main reason why Intel processors were rebranded as their own could be trying to make buyers of these processors believe that they are getting a product developed in China rather than in the United States, which would be a very bad decision , both from Montage Technology and Intel.
Could this be a trade deal?
As we can imagine, Intel is not a company that does not include things that pass with its processors, but we also have a market like that of China that is strictly vigilant, where we have to think that from the company it is worth it. what is happening. It would not be strange that, as we well know, it is a commercial strategy so that these processors are better received in the Eastern country, but it is a strategy that would be based on deception.
We really don’t know if this is a business deal between the two companies, but what we do know is that Intel is not a company that can be fooled, considering that they even have sued other companies for misappropriating their intellectual property.
