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China’s Hygon and Sugon merge to form a vertically integrated supercomputing giant as they fend off US sanctions
Hygon’s processor know-how reinforces Sugon’s supercomputer smarts.
To give this merger some context, regular Tom’s Hardware readers will be aware that Hygon chips leverage the AMD Zen processor architecture. In a recent report we published highlighting an extraordinary Hygon C86-5G, a 128-core, 512-thread CPU with AVX-512 and 16-channel DDR5-5600 support, we quoted a company exec asserting it uses a "new self-developed microarchitecture” in its latest designs. This newly merged company looks like a sure-fire success, with the Chinese political will to build a formidable high-performance computing infrastructure to drive its domestic AI and big data projects.
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