[LINK] China's new Loongson CPU is almost as fast as the first Ryzen

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2021-07-25 at 18:02 +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> The question is "self-sufficiency for what?"  As it stands at the
> moment this give self-sufficiency for the CPUs used in higher-end
> military systems. Maybe that's the entirety of the aim.  If their aim
> is longer then a non-typical ISA starts to be problematic.

Problematic for whom? Possibly not for the Chinese...

They've landed on Mars. They have a working (if 2016-standard) CPU.
Both those things stand on very tall, very wide tech pyramids. There
are probably a whole lot of Rumsfeld fields wrapped around other
Chinese achievements.

Credit where credit is due.

It will be interesting to see how far they get in the next five years.
Maybe by 2026, it will be the West looking up a Chinese tailpipe
instead.

I wonder if the Loongson CPUs being presented now are where their
current best really is?

Regards, K.

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