The Huawei Kunpeng server motherboard and Kunpeng desktop motherboard is now shown on its website with configurations information. The products were released in September with both equipped with Kunpeng 920 processors.
Kunpeng server board:
Kunpeng server motherboard is a data center server motherboard based on Kunpeng processor. It has multi-core, large memory bandwidth, and supports computing capabilities such as PCIe 4.0 and 100GE networks.
The Kunpeng server motherboard has a built-in BMC chip and BIOS software, which is compatible with the mainstream hardware and software such as memory, hard disks, network cards, and operating systems.
Huawei opens the Kunpeng server motherboard interface specifications and device management specifications, and provides reference design guides for chassis, heat dissipation, power supply, and backplane to help partners quickly develop their own branded server products.
Kunpeng server motherboard model is S920X00, equipped with two Kunpeng 920 processors, configured with up to 16 3.5-inch SAS / SATA / SSD hard drives or 16 2.5-inch NVMe SSD hard drives, and supports up to 32 DDR4-2933 memory.
Supports 8 PCIe 4.0 x8 or 3 PCIe 4.0 x16 + 2 PCIe 4.0 x8 on PCIe, supports 2 onboard network cards, supports GE / 10GE / 25GE network ports, and supports Hi1710 intelligent management chip.
Kunpeng desktop board：
Kunpeng desktop motherboard is an office application board developed based on Huawei Kunpeng 920 processor.
It is compatible with mainstream memory, hard disk, network card and other hardware, supports Linux desktop operating system, and provides reference design guides for chassis, cooling, and power supply.
Kunpeng desktop motherboard is equipped with a Kunpeng 920 processor (4/8 core, 2.6Ghz), has six SATA 3.0 hard disk interfaces, supports two M.2 SSD slots, and has four DDR4-2400 UDIMM slots. 64GB capacity.
Kunpeng Desktop Board provides one PCIe3.0 X16, one PCIe3.0 X4, and one PCIe3.0 X1 slot. Supports 2 on-board network cards, GE / 10GE / 25GE network ports, 4 USB 3.0 ports and 4 USB 2.0 ports.
Huawei Kunpeng 920 is the industry's highest-performance ARM-based server CPU to date. Using the cutting-edge 7nm process, the CPU was independently designed by Huawei based on ARMv8 architecture license, according to Huawei’s introduction.
Huawei said the Kunpeng 920 will enable computing platforms with high performance and low power consumption for scenarios including Big Data, Distributed Storage, Database, ARM-Native, Edge Computing and so on. It brings unique value in the coming diversified computing era.
