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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:33AM (3 children)
Googling seems to indicate that some i5s have it while some don't.
My Mid 2014 Mac mini Model Identifier Macmini7,1 is slow as molasses. It works great for developing drivers because they don't have much source code, while I use me $$$ Quad Core i7 MacBook Pro as my testing target because it boots really fast.
If my mini indeed doesn't have hyperthreading, that would explain some of the slowness.
Another reason my Pro boots so fast is that it doesn't have SATA storage - neither rotating nor Flash - rather its storage is Flash on a PCIe card. My mini has rotating media.
I actually managed to find an external USB3 enclosure for my 2012 MacBook Pro's PCIe flash. That's a very narrow market segment but happily it enabled me to recover my data when that box Drank The Kool-Ade.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by seeprime on Tuesday September 25 2018, @04:36AM (2 children)
It sounds like you need to clone your Mini's hard drive onto a solid state drive, which are cheat enough to buy in larger sizes today. The data transfer rate will increase by 300 to 400%. The hard drive is the performance bottleneck.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:21AM (1 child)
I actually bought a 1 TB Western Digital USB 3 Flash drive for a song, but I'm using it for backup and file transfer.
I expect I'll buy a Thunderbolt 2 SSD Drive [macsales.com], but not until I buy an HDMI monitor.
My mini just has two Thundbolt ports; presently I'm using a VGA with a Thunderbolt to VGA adapter, with my other Thunderbolt port being taken up by a Firewire adapter that I use for two-machine debugging.
The guy at the desk next to me has the Jesus Big inwardly curved monitor. He tells me that once you try such a monitor "there is no going back", however I really don't need that much screen real estate.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Tuesday September 25 2018, @08:52PM
I've not afforded a new monitor as a 32" 720p LCD has been plenty for me. Now, you can get a similar one for near $200. It's quite nice to have a screen of that size. Much larger and it really starts to be too large for a desktop machine.
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