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Chuwi AeroBox Mini-PC Uses Same Motherboard as Xbox One S

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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.



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The Chewy Aerobox... I kind of like it.
 
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Given how god-awfully the Jaguar based AM1 chips aged, I'd avoid this like the plague.
 

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Oh, c'mon Chuwi... just when I got faith in this brand, they release a plastic bristol ridge mini-PC falsely marketed "for creators".
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.
 
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AMD's wafer supply agreement with GlobalFoundries ends in 2021, so I guess until then, they have to create products based on 12nm or 14nm architectures. I also guess it will be cheaper for them to make and sell such products at cost, than having to pay penalties to GF, for not honoring that agreement.
 

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they have to create products based on 12nm or 14nm architectures.
It's 28nm for this arch.

Chuwi spokesperson confirmed that the Chuwi AeroBox will use the same motherboard as the Xbox One S.
Kinda missed this part on my first read-through... Me callz bullshit!!! :slap:
 

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How can it be the same, when it has a completely different port layout? The same implies that it's identical, not similar.
 
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AMD's wafer supply agreement with GlobalFoundries ends in 2021, so I guess until then, they have to create products based on 12nm or 14nm architectures. I also guess it will be cheaper for them to make and sell such products at cost, than having to pay penalties to GF, for not honoring that agreement.
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