8-core Zhaoxin KX-6000 Desktop x86 CPU Soon Available In China
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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$620 is way too expensive for this CPU and mobo.
If it would cost under $100 for CPU and motherboard, it can be used as budget PC. With current prices, I don't see a reason.
Considering it's aimed for Chinese market, China can basically put higher tax on AMD and INTEL CPUs and force Chinese consumer to purchase national product.
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Russian and Chinese government hate the idea of not having enough control over Intel Management Engine which is a small portion of the CPU with its own OS doing whatever.
Same goes for AMD with their PSP.
So, last year Russian federation announced a partnership with Chinese government developing their own OS Linux based and having also a hardware platform for it, they are separating themselves from whole world as in consuming what Intel and Microsoft are offering.
Please, don't turn this in a political statement.
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To support the motherland and not pay the Muricans? It would be good if the Chinese government would fusion all CPU maker, instead of having more like VIA/this/AMDcopyone/etc. So in this way, with via having x86 they could develop and provide improvements for it, to be a worthy opponent for AMD/Intel
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Understood. I just lost my thoughts at this price tag I supposed it was more than what it is. But if there is a reasoning behind that move, either political or a fight against tech giants in a land with full quarter of humanity, I can see its point.
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What's the point for someone to purchase this?