I hope their claims are true, because I’m sick of the duopoly in desktop CPUs.
Breaking news: Loongson chips banned in the USA
Because it’s a race I wish such articles would bring forward comparison points :
- benchmark allowing to pinpoint past equivalents
- when was the first equivalent actually put on sale (and where)
- what’s the volume produced, even if only an order of magnitude
- inflation adjusted (as it might be several year gap) price comparison
otherwise it mostly feels like tech-propaganda pieces.
more competition is good!
Agreed, but their entire fab process was stolen via corporate espionage and is not a novel design in any way.
According to Americans every success the Chinese have is stolen. Because in their racist world view, Americans can’t comprehend non-Americans succeeding in anything.
I haven’t seen anything about that in the article, I would like to see some text about it. Especially from whom?
Especially since they use MIPS architecture while Intel and AMD x86 are CISC. So… probably not the whole process?
On the other hand, even if true, China doesn’t have same view on what “original” means as we in the west have. Vase made in the same way as in 16th century is “original 16th century vase”. Different culture.
Are these chips actually made in China or still made in Taiwan like most high performance chips?
No, they’re made by SMIC on the mainland.
