https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/733/zhaoxin-launches-their-highest-performance-chinese-x86-chips/We have managed to confirm with Zhaoxin that the core is indeed that of Centaur Technology. This Chinese x86 chip has a uniquely Texan lineage! Unfortunately Zhaoxin isn’t exactly aware of VIA’s internal codenames which made it impossible to confirm whether it was the original Isaiah or Isaiah II design. We believe that ZhangJiang is almost identical to VIA’s Isaiah II design.
https://translate.google.com/transl...aoxin-prvni-16nm-procesory-x86-cina&sandbox=1From the bottom to the top are 28nm chip ZX-C, which should correspond to VIA Quadcore 2015 , with the chipset ZX-100S, in the middle is the last successor KX-5000 with its chipset ZX-200 and finally above it should be new 16nm silicon, Zhaoxin KX-6000.
Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd. HX002EA0
KX-6840 @ 2.99 GHz
https://browser.geekbench.com/geekbench3/8658463
Yesterday, Zhaoxin unveiled its plans to expand its product offerings in a number of key markets for its next-generation of processors. To do this, Zhaoxin is announcing it will be bifurcating the SoC design into two separate architectures.
KH-40000
Zhaoxin’s follow-up to the KaisHeng-30000 series will be the KH-40000 series. Zhaoxin revealed it plans on launching the new design in 2021. The 40000 series will continue to utilize TSMC’s 16-nanometer process but will use an enhanced microarchitecture design. Zhaoxin says it plans on quadrupling the number of cores in the new series – increasing the core count from eight to 32 cores per chip. Dual-socket support was introduced with some of the later chips in the 30000 series and support will continue to the 40000 series meaning a single node will support up to 64 cores in a 2-way configuration. KH-40000 will continue to utilize DDR4 memory and PCIe Gen 3.
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3138...plans-32-core-servers-sub-7nm-client-designs/KX-7000
Zhaoxin said it also started working on a number of future mobile and desktop processors – including sub-7 nm designs. In sharp contrast to the KaisHeng series, the KX-7000 series will use a new CPU microarchitecture design and be fabricated on the 7-nanometer process. Presumably Zhaoxin follow-up design will be going with either N5 or N5P (we are excluding N7+ given its unusual orphaned status).
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chine...ign-hardware-and-software-within-three-years/The directive is internally known as "3-5-2" based on the percentage targets the Chinese Communist Party imposed on government organizations.
In 2020, the first year when the directive enters into effect, government organizations are supposed to replace 30% of their foreign hardware and software in their respective inventories.
For 2021, the target is 50%, and then 20% in 2022.
The directive remained secret until the past week when its existence leaked to the Financial Times.