Feb 24, 2020
China is nearly entirely dependent on US industry for semiconductors and processors, an addiction that it's well aware it needs to break. This is coming in many forms: for server processors, the first iteration is Hygon, a domestically produced licensed version of
AMD's EPYC; for desktop CPUs one of the domestically made products is the
Zhaoxin Kaixin family of CPUs based on the LuJiaZui micro architecture. One of these desktop CPUs has finally been spotted in a commercially available desktop -- the RG-CT7800 from Ruijie Networks.
In many ways, the RG-CT7800 is an unremarkable PC that looks like something from the Intel NUC family. It has the 2.7Ghz version of the Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-U6780A chip in BGA, and comes with two DDR4 slots, USB 2.0, and a 256GB SSD. Nothing remarkable. The RG-CT7800 runs China's domestic UOS (Unity Operating System) and NeoKylin operating system and Ruijie advertises its compatibility with local cloud office suites such as Yongzhong Office.
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