Chinese chip manufacturer PowerLeader introduced its first generation x86 processors under the Powerstar brandHowever, following the announcement, there were many who suspected that these were actually Intel Comet Lake processors that had been rebranded. Were those who suspected that the processors were actually rebranding, or were they right? rebranding? Well, so far everything seems to indicate that it is.

PowerLeader’s Powerstar x86 processors were unveiled on May 7 in Shenzhen, one of the most technologically advanced cities in China, if not the most. Thanks to the publicly available list of performance tests performed with Geekbench 5, it was possible to verify that the PSTAR P3-01105 PCU is nothing more than an Intel Core i3-10105 that has been renamed and renamed.

Just seeing the aesthetic similarity between the Powerstar and Intel processor models raised suspicions. To top it all off, both the PSTAR P3-01105 PCU and the Intel Core i3-10105 share features such as a 3.7GHz base frequency, 4.4GHz turbo operating speed, 6MB of L3 cache, and a TDP of 65 watts. performance test with Geekbench 5 definitely gave away the rebrand by seeing it code name (code name) is the “Lake of Comets”the same as the one used by the tenth generation of Intel Core processors.

PowerLeader estimates it will sell 1.5 million Powerstar x86 processors a year, targeting sectors such as education, government, energy, industrial, finance, medical, retail and gaming. The question here is whether Intel has given permission to PowerLeader to rename its processors, and the point is that we are facing the difficulties that China has been facing for months in importing technology due to the veto of countries like China and the United States. Other media outlets such as Tom’s Hardware point to the possibility that PowerLeader’s intention behind this was to obtain subsidies granted by the Chinese government itself.

We will see if it will go further or stay here, because the technological context around China is quite complex due to the peculiarities of the country and the political-economic conflict that it has had with the United States for several years.