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Zhaoxin, a joint venture between Via Technologies and the Chinese government, introduced this week its new KaiXian KX-6000 CPU, a SoC based on the x86 architecture, and with a 3-core eight-core configuration.
Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000, the new rival of Intel and AMD
The Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000 is the successor to the KX-5000 CPU released earlier this year. Both chips integrate eight x86-64 cores with 8MB L2 cache, a DirectX 11.1 compliant iGPU with an updated display driver, a dual-channel DDR4-3200 memory controller, and contemporary I / O interfaces (PCIe, SATA, USB etc.
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The key differences between KaiXian KX-5000 and KaiXian KX-6000 are the frequencies and manufacturing technology, as the former is produced using TSMC's 28nm manufacturing process and operates at up to 2GHz, while the latter is manufactured using TSMC's 16nm technology and reaches 3 GHz. Zhaoxin claims that the Kaixian KX-6000 offers computing performance comparable to Intel's seventh-generation Core i5 processor, which is a quad-core CPU.
The slimmer manufacturing process allowed Zhaoxin to make the KaiXian KX-6000 smaller compared to the predecessor, which will eventually lower its manufacturing cost. The two processors use different HFCBGA packages, therefore they cannot use the same motherboards.
The Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000 is based on the LuJiaZui microarchitecture, which is an evolution of the WujiangKou microarchitecture powered by the KX-5000 processor introduced in early 2018. LuJiaZui is an x86-64 compatible superscalar design and supports contemporary instructions like SSE 4.2 and AVX together with virtualization and encryption technologies. Zhaoxin has not announced when it plans to begin commercial shipments of its KaiXian KX-6000 processors, as it now only displays its image.
Via will return to the market for x86 processors with zhaoxin
VIA has announced that it will return to the x86 processor market with the support of Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor, all the details of the new chips.
Via launches the new zhaoxin processors based on x86 architecture
VIA has officially announced its new Zhaoxin processors that are divided into the KaiXian 5000 and KaisHeng 20000 series.
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TSMC is reportedly in charge of producing the KX-7000 chips for Zhaoxin with the 7-nanometer process node.
