Chinese Powerstar x86 CPUs Confirmed To Be Rebadged Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake Chips
China's recently announced x86 Domestic CPUs by Powerstar are nothing more than rebadged Intel 10 Gen chips.
A Chinese chipmaker, PowerLeader, recently announced its brand new x86 CPUs codenamed PowerStar. The company hosted a big event, inviting press from various parts of the country & turns out, the chip was nothing more than a rebadged Intel 10th Gen CPU.
A Geekbench 5 listing of the PowerLeader DP1UI-2 workstation reveals that the PL 1st Gen PSTAR P3-01105 PCU is nothing more than a Core i3-10105 CPU which is derived from the 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake family. The chip also shares the same specifications which offer a 3.7 GHz base clock, 4.4 GHz boost clock, 6 MB of L3 cache, & a TDP of 65W. Even the performance is pretty much the same that one should expect from a 10th Gen Core i3 chip.
There was already suspicion that these chips were rebadged Intel CPUs but this Geekbench listing more or less confirms it.
The chipmaker did state that it was expecting a total of 1.5 million annual sales and that they also have a full roadmap planned for its Powerstar lineup. But based on this finding, it looks like those future generation chips might also be rebadged Intel parts and it should be interesting to see how Intel responds to their official retail CPUs being used by a different company in such a manner.
The CPUs were going to ship with pre-assembled systems so retail availability is questionable. There is no word on what the systems will be priced at but it is unlikely that we would see these chips in retail as DIY parts. PowerLeader is positioning its Powerstar x86 CPU lineup for various segments including education, government, energy, industry, finance, medical, retail, and gaming. The company also stated that it has
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