Huawei is known for its diverse consumer electronics portfolio that is sold across the globe. However, the one market that the company hasn’t entered is desktop PCs. Although, that might soon change as a new report suggests that the company’s Kunpeng 920 powered PC may soon be listed on Huawei Mall.

Previously, we had reported on Huawei launching its own workstation oriented PC for professionals that run the Kunpeng 920 processor to rival Intel workstations. Since then, other reports had also surfaced that the company is also looking into entering the consumer PC market as well, which arrives as the overall PC and laptop sales have grown in recent times due to work from home becoming more popular due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

For those unaware, the Kunpeng 920 processor is a proprietary chip made by Huawei, which is built on the 7nm process and is based on the ARM architecture that was launched back in 2019. It offers high performance and is generally aimed at workstation builds or larger server based applications. A known Weibo blogger (@勇气数码君) recently noticed multiple listings for a new desktop PC that were listed under the model name of “Yellow River K680 G1.”

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Unfortunately, images were not available of this PC, although, certain specs had been revealed. The desktop features a Kunpeng 920 processor along with 8GB of DDR4 2666MHz RAM and 256GB of SD storage. It also sports an AMD Radeon R7 430 graphics card and arrives with a DVD drive, keyboard and mouse as well. Its PSU is a 180W power supply and runs the Kylin operating system.

Unfortunately, these specs do not make the desktop look like a great build from today’s standards, but it might be aimed for general office based workloads rather than gaming or content creation. Furthermore, Huawei has also grown as a laptop maker with its MateBook series and its sub-brand Honor’s Hunter series now targetting both the ultrabook category and gaming laptop markets as well. So, these might be the basic models that the company is offering now and we can probably expect to see beefier pre-built desktops from the Chinese tech giant later on.

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Huawei has made its own line of 7nm ARM v8 based Kunpeng processors through its subsidiary, HiSilcon, that features up to 64 cores and is basically meant for servers. Now, it seems that at least one of these chips is planned for a consumer grade desktop system, as a Chinese YouTube channel has recently purchased and reviewed a Huawei Desktop PC. We had previously reported on such a system before and it seems a unit has surfaced online.

The YouTube channel goes by the name of 二斤自制, who apparently bought and reviewed the Huawei PC with the 7nm Kunpeng 920 ARM v8 processor that has eight cores. This system was built with the Huawei D920S10 desktop motherboard in a third party system and offers us a first look at the upcoming desktop lineup the Chinese tech giant will soon offer, marking its entry into the desktop PC market.

Furthermore, the use of self developed chips in the PC is also indicative of reducing reliance on Western technology. Although, it seems that there are still glaring issues with the desktop PC. Looking at the video, it seems the Huawei system is only limited to 64-bit UOS operating system that was made in China. It is a modified version of Linux, with the system supporting 4K resolution at a 60Hz refresh rate via a Yeston RX550 graphics card.

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Notably, the YouTuber had to pay an extra 800 Yuan (roughly 115 US Dollars) to gain access to the app store. Unfortunately, it seems like the app store is lacking many basic applications, such as Adobe, which can be essential in the professional fields. The system was also benchmarked with the Blender BMW test render that was completed in 11 minutes and 47 seconds, which is quite slow when compared to the recent generation of desktop processors.

The YouTuber bought the system for 7,500 Yuan (roughly 1,060 US Dollars). The Huawei D920S10 motherboard featured 4x DIMM slots but with only 16GB DDR4-2666 RAM spread across two DIMMs. The eight core processor has 8 threads and the video lists its L1 memory with 128K, 512K of L2, and 32MB of L3 memory. While the chip supported PCIe 4.0, the motherboard only has three PCIe 3.0 slots available, with basic connectivity options and ports.

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Huawei, one of the leading smartphone makers, is among the very few companies that make their own mobile processors. However, the company has not limited itself to just mobile chipsets but is also making chipsets for PC under Kunpeng brand.

Now, Huawei and Tencent Games have announced a strategic partnership at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 that was held online amid coronavirus pandemic. Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei Cloud and Computing BG, says that Kunpeng ecology is an important opportunity for the gaming industry.

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Both the companies plan to make several joint innovations and it is said that Huawei will also establish a joint innovation laboratory with Tencent Games. Commenting on the development, Ma Xiaoyi, senior vice president of Tencent Group said: “We are very glad to have reached a strategic cooperation with Huawei and set up a joint innovation laboratory. We will advance the cooperation in mobile cloud games, game engines and other aspects with the advantages of both parties.”

He further adds that for the cloud gaming, the company has created Tencent Cloud Game GameMatrix platform and says that the company will make full use of Huawei Kunpeng processors with powerful computing to build industry-leading, high quality and low-cost mobile cloud gaming solutions.

Huawei executive Hou Jinlong believes that the next ten years will be the golden decade of innovation in computing architecture and the diversified computing architecture innovation requires participation of more developer. At the conference, the company announced that Huawei will invest $200 million to promote the development of Kunpeng.

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