Wednesday, April 15th 2020
Chuwi AeroBox Mini-PC Uses Same Motherboard as Xbox One S
Earlier this year Chinese PC manufacturer Chuwi announced the AeroBox a new high performance mini office PC utilizing the yet to be announced AMD A9-9820 APU. The AeroBox looks suspiciously like a certain games console from afar and now in an exclusive with TechRadar Pro a Chuwi spokesperson confirmed that the Chuwi AeroBox will use the same motherboard as the Xbox One S. The spokesperson also described the AMD A9-9820 APU chip found inside the PC as a "new 7th-generation chip" that runs on Windows 10."
The A9-9820 is a eight core chip with a max frequency of 2.35 GHz and will be paired with a Radeon R7 350 GPU running at up to 985 MHz. The A9-9820 is expected to be based on the Jaguar microarchitecture like the APU found in the Xbox One S and use DDR3 memory. The AeroBox features four DDR3 slots and room for an 2.5" drive, in its base configuration the AeroBox will come with 8 GB of DDR3 memory and a 250 GB M.2 SATA SSD. Chuwi is yet to announce a price for the AeroBox and has confirmed it won't be available outside of Japan at launch.
Source:
TechRadar
The A9-9820 is a eight core chip with a max frequency of 2.35 GHz and will be paired with a Radeon R7 350 GPU running at up to 985 MHz. The A9-9820 is expected to be based on the Jaguar microarchitecture like the APU found in the Xbox One S and use DDR3 memory. The AeroBox features four DDR3 slots and room for an 2.5" drive, in its base configuration the AeroBox will come with 8 GB of DDR3 memory and a 250 GB M.2 SATA SSD. Chuwi is yet to announce a price for the AeroBox and has confirmed it won't be available outside of Japan at launch.
8 Comments on Chuwi AeroBox Mini-PC Uses Same Motherboard as Xbox One S
This SoC surfaced last year, and the result was, let's just say, "expected".
If it's really an octa-core SoC with beefy iGPU, then it's severely TDP-capped. Probably a mobile or LP variant with 35W TDP. Realistically you can get the exact same multi-core and higher single-core performance out of current A10-9700 or even a dual-core Athlon 200GE. Theoretically an 8-core Bristol Ridge can do a lot more, but at full speed it'll be a 125+W steam engine.
The only saving grace here is making it cheap, but given recent Chuwi history, I doubt it'll be the case. This time it's not competing with overpriced iPads and Wacom tablets.