Thursday, May 19th 2022
Russia to Use Chinese Zhaoxin x86 Processors Amidst Restrictions to Replace Intel and AMD Designs
Many companies, including Intel and AMD, have stopped product shipments to Russia amidst the war in Ukraine in the past few months. This has left the Russian state without any new processors from the two prominent x86 designers, thus slowing down the country's technological progress. To overcome this issue, it seems like the solution is embedded in the Chinese Zhaoxin x86 CPUs. According to the latest report from Habr, a motherboard designer called Dannie is embedding Chinese Zhaoxin x86 CPUs into motherboards to provide the motherland with an x86-capable processor. More precisely, the company had designed a BX-Z60A micro-ATX motherboard that embeds Zhaoxin's KaiXian KX-6640MA SoC with eight cores based on LuJiaZui microarchitecture. The SoC is clocked at a frequency range of 2.1-2.7 GHz, carries 4 MB of L2 cache, 16 lanes of PCIe 3.0, and has integrated graphics, all in a 25 Watt TDP.
As far as the motherboard is concerned, it supports two DDR4 memory slots, two PCIe x16 connectors, M.2-2280 and M.2-2230 slots, and three SATA III connectors for storage. For I/O you have USB ports, DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA/D-Sub, GbE, 3.5-mm audio, and additional PS/2 ports. This is a pretty decent selection; however, we don't know the pricing structure. A motherboard with KaiXian KX-6640MA SoC like this is certainly not cheap, so we are left to wonder if this will help Russian users deal with the newly imposed restriction on importing US tech.
Sources:
Habr, via Tom's Hardware
As far as the motherboard is concerned, it supports two DDR4 memory slots, two PCIe x16 connectors, M.2-2280 and M.2-2230 slots, and three SATA III connectors for storage. For I/O you have USB ports, DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA/D-Sub, GbE, 3.5-mm audio, and additional PS/2 ports. This is a pretty decent selection; however, we don't know the pricing structure. A motherboard with KaiXian KX-6640MA SoC like this is certainly not cheap, so we are left to wonder if this will help Russian users deal with the newly imposed restriction on importing US tech.
33 Comments on Russia to Use Chinese Zhaoxin x86 Processors Amidst Restrictions to Replace Intel and AMD Designs
How do you pay for software when you can't?
Ru is done for years to come as this will give echo.. and cuddling with china is dangerous and stupid they want to increase their landsize up north too ..
Piracy is the route they're taking, obviously. IIRC, Russia basically opened the floodgates for everyone to pirate anything.
I dunno, it seems to me like they're still doing business with each other, no matter how worthless the currency is.
They will take that VIA cNS processor as their next-gen, but likely will continue liquidating this shit to Russia.
www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD
Take Argentine Peso
That's official exchange rate. Actual, street level exchange rate is close to double that.
Mainly i used it to get USD cheper then in my bank to later transfer USD on USD card and pay via PayPal, but since PayPal no longer work with Russia and i closed all VISA\MasterCard cards i can just pay in RUB on Aliexpress direclty.
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So around double the PS4 CPU Single thread performance at 2.7GHz?
The VIA CNS processor will actually be impressive (but Zhaoxin are still working on getting that one out the door wit all the customization the want still!)
www.tomshardware.com/news/last-x86-via-chip-centuar-cns-cpu-tested
Performance isn't amazing, but it's finally faster than Bulldozer
Intel left country, but CPUs are in stock;
AMD left country, but CPUs are in stock;
NVIDIA left country, but GPUs are in stock (not FE, but AIB)
Get it?