VIA Zhaoxin x86 4 and 8-core SoC processors launch

As we talked about a while ago, VIA launches their Zhaoxin processors, well SoC's really. Zhaoxin has launched the new processors in the KX-5000 series. With the to be released KX-7000, it wants to compete with AMD again.

KaiXian

KX is short for KaiXian, the 5000 series is to be used in laptops and desktops. The KaiXian chips are fabbed on a 28nm process from Chinese HLMC, using a WuDaoKou microarchitecture. The procs are quad-cores up to 2.0 GHz with 8 cores versions as well at the same maximum speed. 

The KaiXian 5000 series is mostly aimed forPCs, workstations, and laptops. Those SKUs are positioned against Intel’s Core i3 and Core i5 processors.

The fastest 8-core proc thus has eight cores and eight threads at 2.0 GHz based on a 187 mm2 64-bit chip that has 2.1 billion transistors. 64 kb L1 cache is present per core and a total of 8 MB L2 cache. Instructions include Intel VT-x, Trusted Execution Technology, SSE4.2, AVX, and AVX2. The chips have PCIe 3.0, a total of 16 lanes and then four lanes likely for an additional interconnect to a chipset or heck, even something M2. The integrated memory controller supports dual channel ddr4-2133  up-to 64 GB. The integrated GPU provides a maximum of 4096 x 2304 pixels at 60 Hz via display port or HDMI. This is a DirectX 11.1 part, not DX12.