Chinese manufacturer Zhaoxin makes x86-64 processors with eight cores available

The chip manufacturer Zhaoxin has made its high-end processors in the KaiXian KX-6000 series available to system builders in its home country of China. These are x86-64 processors with eight LuJiaZui cores.

Zhaoxin has released the KX-U6780A and KX-U6880A for system builders, AnandTech reports based on a Chinese video from PC manufacturer Xinyingjie. The CPU-Z screenshot in that video shows that the KX-U6780A has eight LuJiaZui cores at 2.7GHz. The processor has a tdp of 70W and is produced by TSMC at 16nm. The processor has 8MB L2 cache, no L3 cache, a dual channel DDR4-3200 controller and an integrated GPU with support for DirectX 11.1.

Xinyingjie puts the processor in a bga package on a C1888 motherboard including a PCI-e 3.0 x16 slot, two SO-DIMM slots and an M2 interface for SSDs. Zhaoxin presented the KX-6000 series last year, claiming that processors are as powerful as a Core i5-7400, a seventh-generation Intel desktop quad-core aka Kaby Lake. The release is limited to China for now. The cost of Xinyingjie’s processors and systems is unknown.