About Zhaoxin
Zhaoxin designs x86-compatible processors, meaning chips that run the same software as Intel and AMD parts, mainly for the Chinese market. Its KaiXian line targets desktop and business PCs and its KaiSheng line targets servers. The company was set up in 2013 as a joint venture between Taiwan's VIA Technologies and a Shanghai municipal government investment firm, and its ability to build x86 chips rests on VIA's x86 licence. Its earliest designs came from VIA's Isaiah core, and it has since developed its own microarchitectures.
Zhaoxin was founded in 2013 and is based in Shanghai, China. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs, CPUs & RISC-V.
Compute Technologies
- x86 CPUs
What Zhaoxin works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
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