Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor · 上海兆芯集成电路股份有限公司

State-Backed Design House

The state-backed (Shanghai United Investment 50.07%) second x86 path — the only domestic vendor natively running standard Windows+Linux binaries on desktop…
Published

October 11, 2026

Chinese name: 上海兆芯集成电路股份有限公司 (Zhàoxīn)

TipWhy This Matters

The state-backed (Shanghai United Investment 50.07%) second x86 path — the only domestic vendor natively running standard Windows+Linux binaries on desktops; a July 2026 central-government (央采) laptop procurement put Zhaoxin-based machines at ~50% of domestic portable PC awards (联想开天 N80z on KX-7000/ZX86). STAR IPO accepted June 2025 (¥41.69亿 planned raise); inquiry responses (May 2026 round two) showed FY2025 revenue ¥11.11亿 (+54.8%) against a ¥10.28亿 loss — and the review is currently paused: the SSE marked Zhaoxin’s application ‘中止（财报更新）’ on 30 September 2026 when the financials lapsed, a routine suspension expected to lift once H1 2026 audited numbers are re-filed; no listing-committee meeting (上会) has yet been held. Its KH-50000 server CPU (up to 96 cores) notched only ¥9.91 million of 2025 revenue in 500-chip volumes but is in validation at Lenovo Kaitian and China Mobile’s DICT supplier library; the KX-8000 desktop chip (4GHz-class, iGPU, PCIe 5.0/DDR5) is promised but unlaunched as of October 2026.

What does this firm design?

x86-compatible desktop/server/embedded CPUs, chipsets, instruction-set extensions; GPU affiliate.

Key Facts

Category State-Backed Design House
Founded 2013
Location Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality
Product Focus x86-compatible CPUs: 开先 KX desktop/embedded (KX-7000, 8-core/3.7GHz, chiplet), 开胜 KH servers (KH-50000 up to 192 cores dual-socket)
Node Sophistication KX-6000 16nm; KX-7000/KH-50000 on more advanced undisclosed node (~N7-class presumed — not verified); domestic-fab pivot underway
Entity List No
Last Verified Newest source dated 11 Oct 2026 (3 sources)

Design Score

3.8/5

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