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[–] D61@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As reported by Huawei Central, the new Qingyun W515x is equipped with China's bleeding-edge octa-core Kirin 9000C processor, which clocks up to 3.1 GHz.

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While the CPU specs remain a secret, the CPU cooler is a low-profile unit that reportedly maintains a chassis temperature below 30C at maximum load. The fan noise level is also quiet, coming in at 21.82 dB.

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[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sounds impressive but this should really be the baseline for non enthusiast CPU temps and power draw if x86 processors weren't so inefficient.

[–] Teapot@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

30 C (86 F) should be baseline at load? Lol. This thing is severely underclocked if that is the temp at load. Laptop processors basically run at 90 C

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But should they run at 90c? They certainly don't have to, and it would sure be nice to just use much more efficient chips that don't produce all that waste heat and burn through power.

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then imagine how cool they could get if software devs actually cared about efficiency

[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

RETVRN TO TRADITION: When ram was measured in KB and video game had to load and run off of a floppy disk.

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I didn't read the at load part. It's perfectly reasonable at idle and low load applications.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

below 30C at maximum load

Yeah right. I'll believe it when I see it tested independently.

Genuinely seems farfetched.

[–] imikoy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

x86 is bad with power efficiency, ARM is much better. Some ARM Apple laptops don't have a cooler, even.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

5nm technology is the best manufacturing process China currently has access to. Since U.S. regulations have banned China's access to the latest generation of chipmaking tools, China's chipmaking facilities have to deal with the restrictions of older shipbuilding tools that aren't necessarily capable of building the latest-generation tech, like extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). It has limited China's ability to develop competitive CPUs with Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm's latest chips.

I didn't know ships were used in microprocessors!

[–] CoolYori@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The process of poisoning sand until it thinks is complex.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

5nm?!! That's 2020 tech, they may as well go back to stone tools if they're one generation behind!

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The node size has been pure marketing for like 15 years now

Oh, hey Bob! I didn't know you were still around, glad to have such a brave patriot here on Hexbear. o7

[–] RION@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to see this post locked on r/hardware

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wanna know what ISA it uses. I wanna be able to install Linux on modernish hardware without having the management engine and its equivalents hardwired in.

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Kirin 9000 series have been ARMv8

there are other companies also working on risk5 and a new isa loongarch that is getting support rolled out

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A new system with a slow China-made processor

thanks for the adjective, tomshardware.com

China's bleeding-edge octa-core Kirin 9000C processor, which clocks up to 3.1 GHz

The Kirin 9000C is an octa-core CPU with 12 threads and a 2.48 GHz frequency

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~(might\ just\ be\ top\ vs.\ default\ clock\ speed\ but\ whatever,\ 0/10\ for\ ambiguous\ writing)~

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

gotta add some cope to the article as not to offend western sensibilities :)

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

9,000°C🫨

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

niko-yawn let me know when its over 9000

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

More competıtıon in chipmaking is always welcome.