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Zhaoxin Displays x86-Compatible KaiXian KX-6000: 8 Cores, 3 GHz, 16 nm FinFET
Zhaoxin, a joint venture between Via Technologies and the Chinese government, this week for the first time displayed its upcoming x86-compatible CPU, the KaiXian KX-6000. The SoC features eight cores running at 3 GHz and increases performance over its predecessor by at least 50%.
The KaiXian KX-6000 is a successor to the KX-5000 CPU launched earlier this year. Both chips integrate eight-core x86-64 cores with 8 MB of L2 cache, a DirectX 11.1-capable iGPU with an up-to-date display controller, a dual-channel DDR4-3200 memory controller, contemporary I/O interfaces (PCIe, SATA, USB, etc), and so on. The key differences between the KaiXian KX-5000 and the KaiXian KX-6000 are frequencies and manufacturing technology: the former is produced using TSMC's 28 nm fabrication process and runs at up to 2 GHz, whereas the latter is made using TSMC's 16 nm technology and operates at up to 3 GHz. Zhaoxin claims that the Kaixian KX-6000 offers compute performance comparable to that of Intel's 7th Generation Core i5 processor, which is a quad-core non-Hyper-Threaded CPU. Obviously, performance claims like that have to be verified, yet a 50% performance bump over the direct predecessor already seems beefy enough.
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:41AM (1 child)
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No, that wasn't quite right. To the man - Howzerson - every single day was April Fools' Day. The man continued giggling, congratulating himself on yet another comical prank. Then, he saw something interesting: Another woman.
Howzerson smiled. He had just found a new target for another one of his hilarious pranks...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Subsentient on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:27AM
Whoever you are, you need psychiatric help. I kind of enjoy the trolling aspect, but the fact remains, there's something deeply wrong here. You need to see a psych.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti