The Chinese company Hygon, created by AMD and investors from the Asian giant, will shortly launch its first processors based on AMD's own Zen architecture.
The Chinese market is one of the largest in the world and is of great importance. To gain more strength in this market, in 2016, AMD created a company in conjunction with Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Company, who paid a total of 293 million dollars to AMD, to be able to use the x86 processor licenses. So they created a company called Hygon. The idea of this company is to manufacture processors that can 'meet the real needs of the Chinese market'.
Hygon, a kind of AMD subsidiary in China, launches Dhyana processors
The Dhyana processors, from the Chinese company, have been seen in the latest kernel patch for Linux. Dhyana is based on the Zen architecture, creating a customized version of x86 processors for the Chinese market with a technology base from AMD. This allows development optimization and makes it easier for programmers to release updates and improvements, since they do not have to learn how to optimize for a completely new processor.
Dhyana is very similar to the Zen architecture, something that can be seen very easily, especially in terms of architecture support in Linux, where less than 200 lines of code have been needed to offer support to these processors. We must emphasize that this is extremely rare, since each new architecture or family of processors usually requires hundreds of lines of code.
Although these Hygon Dhyana processors are based on AMD's Zen architecture, we don't know much else about these processors. If data appears, it will come from Chinese media, since it should not be sold in any other country. This will mean an increase in revenue for AMD, since each processor will take a small part.
Source: OC3D
