Centaur may have disappeared for good, but remnants of the company’s products remain if you look hard enough. Computer enthusiast Albert Thomas (opens in new tab) (aka Bizude) got his hands on Centaur’s CHA chip and put it through its paces in various modern triple-A titles. The CHA processor has a die size of 194…
Now that AMD and Intel do not officially sell their processors in Russia, the country has to find replacements to not find itself in the stone age one day. This week Dannie, a motherboard maker with offices in Russia, China, Lithuania, and Turkey, introduced its new motherboard based on Zhaoxin’s system-on-chip. While this chip can barely…
Move over, Raspberry Pi—Framework has begun shipping its standalone Mainboard for enthusiasts to design their own single-board computers based on powerful Intel Core processors. Framework’s excellent modular laptops were originally designed to allow customers to mix and match components, something that’s relatively rare in a laptop. Framework’s Mainboards certainly live up to that ideal, as…
A small-form-factor PC featuring the Chinese-made Zhaoxin KX-6640MA processor, a reminder that AMD and Intel aren’t the only game in town any more, has appeared for sale (and is sold out) on Shopee Indonesia, where it was spotted by CNX Software. Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: Beelink) Image 2 of 2 (Image credit: Beelink)…
Qnap has quietly introduced its six-bay TVS-675 NAS powered by an eight-core Chinese x86 CPU designed by Zhaoxin, a joint venture between Via Technologies and the Shanghai Municipal Government. The NAS for small businesses (SMBs) is one of the first (if not the first) commercial devices set to be available in the U.S. and Europe,…
Apple executives said Wednesday that roughly 50% of the Mac and iPad sales in the second quarter of 2021 were to people who’d never owned those devices before. Much of that growth has been attributed to the M1 system-on-a-chip, the release of which led the Mac to enjoy the best financial quarter in its decades-long…
