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Centaur Unveils Its New Server-Class x86 Core: CNS; Adds AVX-512

December 9, 2019May 25, 2021 David Schor 16nm, AVX-512, Centaur Technology, CHA, inference, neural processors, VIA Technologies, x86

Centaur lifts the veil on CNS, its next-generation x86 core for data center and edge computing. The core improving performance in many areas and adds support for the AVX-512 extension.

Desktop Processors Mobile Processors Server Processors

Zhaoxin launches their highest-performance Chinese x86 chips

January 21, 2018May 25, 2021 David Schor 28nm, China, HLMC, KaisHeng, KaiXian, TSMC, VIA Technologies, x86, Zhaoxin

Zhaoxin has launched the highest-performance domestic Chinese x86 chips based on the WuDaoKou microarchitecture. Zhaoxin new chips are a brand new SoC design featuring higher performance cores, a new DDR4 memory controller and integrated graphics.