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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the competition++ dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:21AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:21AM (#739498)

    It is a war with China. The plutocrats who control American companies are traitors, helping the enemy for pay. Traitors need to be punished, but remember that they wouldn't even be an issue without the enemy.

    That 25% tariff on light trucks works nicely. I think that proves the point, no? We need a 25% tariff on cars too. We could perhaps make exceptions for high-cost countries like Japan and Germany, but only if they make the same exceptions for us.

    I do think the USA influences elections and coups all over the world. This is their problem, not mine, and in some cases I might benefit. I expect every country to try to influence US elections, and that is our problem to deal with.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:37AM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:37AM (#739506) Homepage Journal

    In the US it is unlawful for a political candidate to accept foreign campaign donations.

    But Daniel Ortega got voted out of office in Nicaragua due in large part to the US government backing an entire dump truck full of money up to Ortega's opponent's driveway.

    That's just wrong, and should be crime IMHO.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:17AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:17AM (#739582)

      It should be crime in Nicaragua. The USA can get away with it though, and if this (including image effects) is an overall benefit to the USA, then the USA should do it.

      It goes the other way too. Nicaragua influencing US elections should be a crime in the USA. Nicaragua should do it anyway, if they can get away with it.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:29AM (#739583)
    Not actually. It's more like the USA just loves being at war. Whether it's the Russians, the Chinese or whoever it doesn't really matter aka "We've always been at war with Eurasia/Eastasia".

    As long as there's a war those in power are happy. Plenty of patriotic suckers will support them against "The Enemy" and attack those who "aren't patriotic enough" or are "Traitors!". Many of those patriotic suckers can even believe that killing brown or yellow people thousands of miles away is to do with "Protecting Freedoms".

    Your elections are already being influenced by those in power. That's why out of 300 million people you "only" have crappy options like Trump and Clinton. Whoever wins the Military Industrial Complex will still win. If it's Clinton she'll willingly support them, if it's Trump he wouldn't have the will or ability to go against them for long.

    Heck the way things have been going you might even do better if the Chinese pick your leaders.

    Or maybe outsource the whole thing to India - the World's Largest Democracy - you'd likely get equally crappy results but at least it'll be cheaper.
  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday September 25 2018, @09:27AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 25 2018, @09:27AM (#739602) Journal

    I do think the USA influences elections and coups all over the world

    So, fair is fair, you'd have no problem if China would try to organize a coup in US?

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