ZTE AX5400 Pro router released with self-developed 12-core main chip and 6 antennas

Zohaib Ahmed — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:54:36 +0000

ZTE yesterday released the AX5400 Pro router, equipped with a self-developed 12-core main chip. The router adopts an all-black appearance with a spaceship design and all 6 independent antennas can be folded 180°.

The ZTE AX5400 Pro product page shows that the 8-core NPU (Independent Network Acceleration Engine) of this router can increase the fast-forwarding performance of data packets by 1400%. This is combined with a 120% performance boost of the 4-core 1.1GHz CPU. Both CPU and NPU work together to achieve two-way data. The max data transfer speeds reach 20Gbps.

The ZTE AX5400 Pro is equipped with a 2500M custom network port, which can support 2500M broadband. The router also supports the WiFi6 160MHz bandwidth.

Another highlight of the router is its antennas. There are 6 of them and each is independent. Together, they’re capable of enhancing the signal by 6dB.

In terms of heat dissipation, AX5400 Pro uses aluminum-silicon and aluminum-magnesium alloy double-layer full-covering heat sink. This is paired with a high-efficiency graphene heat dissipation coating.

The router is gaming-focused, just as its design conveys, and thus has exclusive NetEase UU and Tencent game accelerators to reduce latency as much as possible during online gaming.

The ZTE AX5400 Pro router is currently only available in China for 549 Yuan, which is around $85. There hasn’t been any announcement of a global release as of yet, but one could follow soon if ZTE indeed intends to make it available for the global market.

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ZTE AX5400 Pro router released with self-developed 12-core main chip and 6 antennas