History of video games/Platforms/Subor Z+

History thumb|Shanghai skyline in 2017. Subor of Guangdong had been a notable producer of computers as clone game consoles in the Chinese market between 1987 and 1995 where it commanded as much as 80% of the home game console market, which it helped to establish in the country.Davis Kenrick Reports of Our Death Are Greatly Exaggerated, Says Chinese Gaming Console https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006436/reports-of-our-death-are-greatly-exaggerated%2C-says-chinese-gaming-console 9 February 2021 Sixth Tone 2020 en The brand was acquired by Yihua Group, also of Guangdong, in 2010. The system was announced by August 5th, 2018 by a subsidiary company in Shanghai.Leadbetter Richard Meet the Chinese console that's like PS4 Pro - but with AMD's next-gen CPU https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-meet-the-chinese-console-thats-like-ps4-pro-with-ryzen-cpu 9 February 2021 Eurogamer 4 August 2018 en The system was meant for specifically for the Chinese market.We GOT the Chinese Game Console!! - Subor Z+ Early Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lv1TxUXIbo 9 February 2021 The team developing the console was disbanded by May 16, 2019 due to financial holdups and the impending launch.Judd Will The Subor Z+ console team has disbanded - but it's not game over yet https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-05-15-subor-z-games-console-team-has-been-disbanded 9 February 2021 Eurogamer 16 May 2019 en There was some confusion caused by the folding of a company with the same name around the time of the console cancellation, leading to many in China to reminisce about the company that introduced them to gaming back in the 1990's.Iconic bootleg console maker in China faces bankruptcy https://www.scmp.com/abacus/games/article/3109039/bootleg-gaming-console-maker-subor-faces-bankruptcy-frontman-barred 9 February 2021 South China Morning Post 9 November 2020 en The Subor company itself continued to operate after the console team was dissolved. Technology The system was based on an X86_64 PC architecture, though with non-standard parts. The system used a custom AMD System on a Chip combining a AMD Ryzen CPU (Model DG02SRTBP4MFA) with a AMD 15FF Vega GPU.Subramaniam Vaidyanathan Zhongshan Subor Z+'s custom Ryzen+Vega SoC has more GPU compute power than the Intel 'Kaby Lake-G' Core i7-8809G https://www.notebookcheck.net/Zhongshan-Subor-Z-s-custom-Ryzen-Vega-SoC-has-more-GPU-compute-power-than-the-Intel-Kaby-Lake-G-Core-i7-8809G.331872.0.html 9 February 2021 Notebookcheck en The CPU contains 4 cores with 8 threads, and can turbo clock to 3.0 gigahertz. The GPU contains 24 compute units clocked at 1300 megahertz and is capable of 3.99 teraflops. The console had 8 gigabytes of GDDR5 capable of 256 gigabits per second of bandwidth, which was shared between compute and graphics. The system used twin installs of Windows 10 Enterprise IoT for either a PC gaming or console gaming experience. References 2 100% __NOTOC__