On: Investigating SSMEC's (State Micro) 486s with the UCA

[kjs3]

Chinese company, so sure industrial espionage would be the first guess. But to be fair lots of folks reverse engineered the 486 (as shown in TFA). If the performance analysis it to be believed, something was improved, so it's not an exact copy.

[RecycledEle → kjs3]

The cycles per instruction were identical for every instruction.

Power usage dropped by almost a watt or about 25%.

[hakfoo → kjs3]

If the application was critical enough, then I could see the effort in making a cycle-accurate, bug-accurate clone.

[rasz → kjs3]

? performance is same down to same cycles

[kjs3 → rasz]

Pls read the article, in particular note the part about power consumption.