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WuDaoKou µarch | |
General Info | |
Arch Type | CPU |
Designer | Zhaoxin |
Manufacturer | HLMC |
Introduction | December 28, 2017 |
Process | 28 nm |
Core Configs | 2, 4, 8 |
Pipeline | |
Type | Superscalar |
OoOE | Yes |
Speculative | Yes |
Reg Renaming | Yes |
Instructions | |
ISA | x86-64 |
Succession | |
WuDaoKou is the successor to Zhangjiang, a 28 nm x86 microarchitecture designed by Zhaoxin for mainstream laptops, desktops, and servers.
Contents
Brands
Family | Series | Description |
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KaiXian | KX (5000) | Desktop, Laptops |
KaisHeng | KH (20000) | Storage, Servers |
Release Dates
Development for WuDaoKou started in August 2013. The basic architecture design was completed by June 2014 with basic designed done in July 2015. WuDaoKou logic design was completed in April 2016 and taped out in August 2016. Final verification was done in October 2016 and mass production started in October 2017. The architecture and SKUs were officially unveiled at a conference on December 28, 2018.
Process Technology
WuDaoKou is manufactured on HLMC's 28 nm process.
Architecture
Key changes from Zhangjiang
- 25% higher IPC
- 140% higher performance in multi-threaded workloads
- 8 cores per die (up from 4)
- SoC design
- New Uncore
- northbridge moved on-die
- PCIe 3.0 (from 2.0)
- DDR4 (From DDR3)
- New integrated graphics processor
- HD Audio Output/Codec
- DirectX 11.1
- Up to 3 displays
- DP / eDP / HDMI / VGA
- New Uncore
- Core
- Pipeline was reduced by 5 stages
- Execution engines were re-balanced
- Branch prediction unit was reworked and optimized
- FSB removed
- x4 PCIe 3.0 communication with southbridge chipset
- Chipset
- Gigabit Ethernet port (RGMII)
- USB 3.1 Gen2 (Type-C) ports
- SATA 3.0 ports
- Formal OS certification
- Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification
- Windows 7/10
- Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification
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Block Diagram
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Memory Hierarchy
- Cache
- L1D Cache
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- Per core
- L1I Cache
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- Per core
- L2 Cache
- 4 MiB, 32-way set associative
- Per quad-core cluster
- L1D Cache
- System DRAM
- 2 Channels
- DDR4, Up to 2400 MT/s
Sockets/Platform
All parts use a HFCBGA 37.5×37.5 mm package and are effectively a system on a chip. However, for the most part, those parts get paired with a chipset which serves as an I/O extension chip. The chipset communicates with the microprocessor over standard PCIe 3.0 x4 lanes.
Chipset | ||||||||||
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Chipset | TDP | PCIe | SATA | USB | Network | Process | Package | |||
2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 3.1 Gen 1 | 3.1 Gen 2 | |||||
ZX-200 | 6 W | 9 lanes | - | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 10/100M/1 Gbps | 40 nm | FCBGA (21mm x 21mm) |
Die
- HLMC 28 nm process
- 187 mm² die size
- 2,100,000,000 transistors
All WuDaoKou Processors
List of WuDaoKou-based Processors | |||||||
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Main processor | |||||||
Model | Family | Launched | Cores | L2 | Frequency | Max Memory | ECC |
KH-25800 | KaisHeng | 28 December 2017 | 8 | 8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB | 1.8 GHz 1,800 MHz 1,800,000 kHz | 128 GiB 131,072 MiB 134,217,728 KiB 137,438,953,472 B 0.125 TiB | ✔ |
KH-26800 | KaisHeng | 28 December 2017 | 8 | 8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB | 2 GHz 2,000 MHz 2,000,000 kHz | 128 GiB 131,072 MiB 134,217,728 KiB 137,438,953,472 B 0.125 TiB | ✔ |
KX-5540 | KaiXian | 28 December 2017 | 4 | 4 MiB 4,096 KiB 4,194,304 B 0.00391 GiB | 1.8 GHz 1,800 MHz 1,800,000 kHz | 64 GiB 65,536 MiB 67,108,864 KiB 68,719,476,736 B 0.0625 TiB | ✘ |
KX-5640 | KaiXian | 28 December 2017 | 4 | 4 MiB 4,096 KiB 4,194,304 B 0.00391 GiB | 2 GHz 2,000 MHz 2,000,000 kHz | 64 GiB 65,536 MiB 67,108,864 KiB 68,719,476,736 B 0.0625 TiB | ✘ |
KX-U5580 | KaiXian | 28 December 2017 | 8 | 8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB | 1.8 GHz 1,800 MHz 1,800,000 kHz | 64 GiB 65,536 MiB 67,108,864 KiB 68,719,476,736 B 0.0625 TiB | ✘ |
KX-U5580M | KaiXian | 28 December 2017 | 8 | 8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB | 1.8 GHz 1,800 MHz 1,800,000 kHz | 64 GiB 65,536 MiB 67,108,864 KiB 68,719,476,736 B 0.0625 TiB | ✘ |
KX-U5680 | KaiXian | 28 December 2017 | 8 | 8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB | 2 GHz 2,000 MHz 2,000,000 kHz | 64 GiB 65,536 MiB 67,108,864 KiB 68,719,476,736 B 0.0625 TiB | ✘ |
Count: 7 |
References
- Information was obtained directly from Zhaoxin
- Zhaoxin launches their highest-performance Chinese x86 chips
codename | WuDaoKou + |
core count | 2 +, 4 + and 8 + |
designer | Zhaoxin + |
first launched | December 28, 2017 + |
full page name | zhaoxin/microarchitectures/wudaokou + |
instance of | microarchitecture + |
instruction set architecture | x86-64 + |
manufacturer | HLMC + |
microarchitecture type | CPU + |
name | WuDaoKou + |
process | 28 nm (0.028 μm, 2.8e-5 mm) + |