Via joint venture reveals KX-5000 x86 SoCs for Chinese PCs
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The biggest news in PC hardware in 2017 was AMD's return to the mainstream and high-end desktop spaces with its Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. Qualcomm and Microsoft spent the year working to bring Redmond's OS and the associated software to a new class of ARM-powered laptops. In all the hubbub, one could be forgiven for forgetting that Via Technologies also has a license to produce x86-compatible processors. Chinese site EEFocus reports that Zhaoxin Semiconductor, Via's joint venture with the Chinese government, has announced the KX-5000 line of x86-64-compatible chips, which it claims are the first Chinese processors with full integration of platform controller chips and dual-channel DDR4 memory controllers.
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