Huawei's New Taishan CPU Core Matches AMD Zen 3 in Benchmarks, Shows Progress Despite US Restrictions
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Huawei's new Taishan V120 CPU core matches AMD's Zen 3 in single-core performance based on a Geekbench 6 result.
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The Taishan V120 was first used in Huawei's Kirin 9000s smartphone chip.
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It's likely made using SMIC's 7nm process, which may be illegal to sell internationally due to U.S. regulations.
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The CPU in the benchmark is speculated to be Huawei's new Kunpeng 930 server CPU based on the high single-core score.
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This shows Huawei's chip technology is close to cutting-edge Western designers like AMD and Intel.