The proposed deal involves Hygon absorbing Sugon shares in a stock-swap agreement. Should the process complete successfully, with both companies’ shares being taken off the open market for up to 10 trading days, the newly consolidated entity will appear on the Shanghai stock exchange.
To give this merger some context, regular Tom’s Hardware readers will be aware that Hygon chips leverage the AMD Zen processor architecture. However, the firm says it has moved on from those days. 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.
So this is… no longer a Zen 1 derivative? Or, incorporates Zen 1 still plus… some other core design, in a big/LITTLE type design? I’m not sure. Watching with interest. Wondering whether they somehow quietly connected up with what’s left of VIA/Zhaoxin for their x86 license.