Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor plans to introduce a 16nm 8-core 3GHz PC processor series in 2018, according to company vice president Cheng Fu.

Zhaoxin's in-house developed ZX-D series processors built using 28nm process technology will start shipping in Lenovo's all-in-one (AIO) PCs in the second half of 2017, said Fu. Currently all Zhaoxin's CPUs are designed for Windows systems.

Zhaoxin is committed to promoting China's home-grown processors, Fu claimed.