Chinese chip designer Loongson last week teased products that it claimed will deliver the same performance that Intel and AMD achieved around five yea

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop

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2024-10-31 19:00:16

Chinese chip designer Loongson last week teased products that it claimed will deliver the same performance that Intel and AMD achieved around five years ago.

Loongson develops its own instruction set architecture called LoongArch that draws on RISC-V and MIPS and is thought to rely more on the latter. The processors aren't leading edge, but that hasn't stopped the likes of Lenovo porting software to LoongArch – probably thanks to China's government strongly encouraging use of locally created product.

The chip shop last week staged its very own "Industrial Ecosystem Conference" to discuss its roadmap and show off systems built by partners. At that event, chairman Hu Weiwu addressed an audience that included senior government officials and mentioned a forthcoming 3B6600 desktop processor that "can reach the performance of the x86 processor under the 7nm process."

Intel delivered 7nm processes on the desktop with its 12th-gen Core processors (aka Alder Lake) in 2022. AMD got there three years earlier with 3000-series Ryzen silicon using Xen 2 cores baked on TSMC's 7FF process.

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