8-core Zhaoxin KX-6000 Desktop x86 CPU Soon Available In China

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/31/2020 09:36 AM | source: cdrinfo | 46 comment(s)

Zhaoxin will soon have its KX-6000-series processors available for purcahse ine China. The x86 chips are listed on Chinese e-commerce website Taobao and are scheduled to launch in March.

Available with an ITX motherboard made by Shenzhen Cjoyin Electronics, the KaiXian KX-U6780A (BGA 1023) is an octa-core, 8-threaded processor based on the LuJiaZui microarchitecture rated at 70W TDP and it is clocked at 2.7 GHz. The processor has 8MB of L2 cache but no L3 cache. it has been produced by TSMC using the foundry's 16nm process node.

According to the company, its performance is equivalent to a Core i5-7400 , so it is not a very high performance, although it is not bad for offices and basic domestic use.

The KX-U6780A has a dual-channel memory controller and it supports up to 64GB DDR4 memory. It also supports DirectX 11 graphics, M.2, PCIe 3.0, SATA and USB 3.1 interfaces, and its instruction sets including SSE 4.2 and AVX. Available with the C1888 mini-ITX motherboard, users can install Win7x64 / Win10x64 / Linux64 operating systems. The board's PCIE channel supports up to GeForce RTX 2060 GPUs. The C1888 also features two DDR4 SO-DIMMs that support DDR4-3200 RAM. It also provides an mSATA and SATA port for storage. It comes with an Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) and two COM interfaces. There's also a slot for a PCIe wireless network card.

The CPU with motherboard combo is listed online for ¥4300.00 ( ~$620).

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heffeque
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#5756105 Posted on: 01/31/2020 10:48 AM

The EU too is working on their own chip, late to the party, but they got their engineering samples. It's never about performance but about controlling the IP and security as far as possible.

This. It's not about the competition, it's about having control over IP and security.

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#5756134 Posted on: 01/31/2020 12:26 PM

What's the point for someone to purchase this?
$620 is way too expensive for this CPU and mobo.

One note. This thing isn't for you. Its for those who do not want US backdoors on their hardware and software.
Is faster CPU than what most military gear are using and they do not plan to play games or run cinebench on it.

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#5756135 Posted on: 01/31/2020 12:33 PM

One note. This thing isn't for you. Its for those who do not want US backdoors on their hardware and software.
Is faster CPU than what most military gear are using and they do not plan to play games or run cinebench on it.
Easy for you to conclude after reading following replies

Another note. Is military gear really using X86? Maybe something with more "RISC" wink wink.

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#5756136 Posted on: 01/31/2020 12:37 PM

I don't think that most of you know how it work "on the strange countries of the other side"... to have lived in ex est block i can tell you a thing: it's just like here, people are the same.
600$ is also the price of industrial embeded board in here!!

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#5756141 Posted on: 01/31/2020 01:00 PM

Some friend of a friend working in Russian federation government.
Not for the faint of heart, but deep inside their IT department there is a very strong desire to be hardware and software independent...
And they pour real money into IT and by golly, Russian mathematicians and engineers really know what they are doing.
Not praising the Motherland subculture, just observing and learning about if there is a will, there is a way.
So this news falls into the careful plan of Chinese Russian fusion planned to separate from American 3 letters agencies.
And inB4 government conspiracy: There is a fact plain as day that Microsoft products are not loved in RU and CPR. And Intel hardware follows in the trend.
They are really doing something about it, and what you now see is what they let to be known, the rest is left to guessing, conspiracy and uncertainty.

My opinions are NOT facts and I'll respect otherwise facts or opinions based on certain evidence.

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