These Zen-esque chips have come up before, though it sounds like this might be the first time they've been used in a marketed product. A couple other companies born out of the remnants of Centaur also seemed to have borrowed architectural notes from the early Zen CPUs, potentially as a result of their competitors like Hygon making that deal with AMD almost 10 years ago. It's the first time one seems to be almost a boilerplate 1700x though.
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Lowkey would expect them to use RISC-V or loongarch.
It's the easiest path to gaming compatibility. Don't know about loongarch. For RISC-V box86/64 supports it but it's probably far from great and there's a lack of RVA23 chips to test and develop for currently. These companies could employ people to work on it but most hardware companies really minimum needed effort software until it bites them in the wallet like Nvidia vs AMD/Intel. Qualcomm hyping up day one Linux support for X Elite ARM laptop chips and then over a year later it's still medicore. Mobile graphics drivers for Mali, Adreno, and PowerVR all being different levels of mediocre. Every car company vs Android auto and Carplay