Huawei ships desktop PC with its eight-core Kunpeng 920 CPU

There's a lot of hardware out there that never reaches the West. The subject of this article is one of the those things you're unlikely to ever see outside of Asia. Tom's Hardware discovered that Huwaei is shipping a desktop PC that uses the company's eight-core, eight-threaded 7nm Kunpeng 920 ARM v8 processor, in combination with the Huawei D920S10 desktop motherboard, the Yeston RX550 video card, 16GB DDR4-2666 memory, a 256GB SATA HDD, and a 200W PSU. The system runs the 64-bit UOS operating system, which is a Linux distro commissioned by the People's Republic of China to replace foreign operating systems like Windows.

In China, the system sells for 7500 yuan, which is around $1,060. It's quite slow compared to typical x86 CPUs though, and only seems good for light office work and media consumption:

The system did run a Blender BMW test render, but it completed in 11 minutes and 47 seconds, which is woefully slower than most modern chips. The system did well streaming 4K video, but 'choked' during local playback due to poor encoding performance. The narrator says the system is obviously best for light office work only.