Zhaoxin Desktop x86 CPU Launches in China
Chinese Zhaoxin will soon make available its domestically produced KX-6000-series processors in 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)an octa-core, 8-threaded processor based on the LuJiaZui microarchitecture. It is 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.
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 + motherboard combo is listed online for ¥4300.00 ( ~$620).