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, @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.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"