Chinese computer giant Huawei is switching gears in its latest pre-built PC and using homemade silicon instead of Western-built 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs. 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.
The new system is a slimline OEM PC that targets large businesses. It sports a plain black finish and a slim Micro-ATX form factor that only supports low-profile PCIe cards. The Quingyun W515x has three hardware configurations: 8GB + 256GB, 8GB + 512GB, and 16GB + 512GB memory and storage combinations. The storage options include a single NVMe M.2 PCIe slot.
That’s exactly where the article should’ve started and ended rather than becoming a propaganda piece. We vs them adage is exhausting.
Anyway, it didn’t even bring up the software ecosystem. It obviously would have HarmonyOS support out of the box but is there more in regards to Linux and maybe Android? We’ll never know..
What does it feel like to be a Chinese programmer living in Norway? Are Norwegians all tall and strong, so that when a Chinese person sits on the toilet, his feet can't reach the ground? Are Norwegians more indifferent because of the climate? Are Norwegians more prone to depression during the polar night?
Norway, a small Nordic country with a population of 5 million, also has Chinese programmers working there. This oil-producing country also has some world-famous IT companies, such as QT and Opera. What is different about this NATO country that has not joined the European Union?
I assume the android implementation was done in China, then many requirements are related with "补贴", it is just part of them to submit some data to zzhc.vnet.cn. But didn't get deleted when they are making EU variants.
Thanks for the links. Actually, I had seen one of those articles before, but didn't understand it well enough.
My understanding now is that some 4G deployments are subsidized, and to correctly compute the amounts to be paid, China Telecom needs to collect more data than is usually available, so they came up with the idea of sending the data to zzhc.vnet.cn.
Still pretty hacky, but it kind of makes sense from a perspective of doing the minimum necessary to fulfill the requirements.
The new system is a slimline OEM PC that targets large businesses. It sports a plain black finish and a slim Micro-ATX form factor that only supports low-profile PCIe cards. The Quingyun W515x has three hardware configurations: 8GB + 256GB, 8GB + 512GB, and 16GB + 512GB memory and storage combinations. The storage options include a single NVMe M.2 PCIe slot.