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I’d love to get my hands on one of these. They’re MIPS machines that are on-par with the Intel core i3 14100. Loongson is also involved with Deepin Linux, so th
by BirAdam 3y ago
I’d love to get my hands on one of these. They’re MIPS machines that are on-par with the Intel core i3 14100. Loongson is also involved with Deepin Linux, so they’re attempting to build out a Chinese-native technology stack. While I generally don’t care for things under control of the CCP due to surveillance concerns, I do love competition for bringing about new tech innovation. We’re now getting back to the 80s/90s as far as diversity with AMD64, MIPS, RISC-V, ARM, OpenPOWER, and then semi-custom variants of RISC-V and ARM. It’s fun.
- cyp0633 3y agoIt's Loongarch, some sort of MIPS + RISC-V.
- unwind 3y agoWikipedia [1] has some more details, but not too many on the main page itself. Also from the top of that page I learned that "Loongson" means "Dragon Core" which to me as a westerner makes it sound very clearly Chinese (because dragons) but also a lot cooler (because ... dragons!). Nice. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch
- russli1993 3y agoThe loongarch spec https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch-Vol1-EN.html https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch...
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoAssociating China with dragons seems like such a lucky PR win to me. How many countries are, outside of that country, associated with any mascot at all, let alone such a badass one? Also it seems appropriate that the Western concept of a dragon is much less friendly than the Chinese one -- at least, judging from the dances.
- Woshiwuja 3y agoOnly one that comes to mind is the american eagle lmao
- ficklepickle 3y agoThe Welsh have their own dragon (on their flag)
- BirAdam 3y agoThis was the reason for Dragon computers btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64
- wuxb 3y agoChinese dragon = snake with four legs. It can fly (magically). Western dragon = dino with wings. It can fly. They're unrelated things. A Chinese dragon is more like a unicorn than a western dragon.
- sterlind 3y agodon't both of them breathe fire, though?
- gunship_man 3y agoIn chinese mythology, long are also control for rain.
- throwaway4good 3y agoIt is the golden age if you are a Chinese chip designer or operating systems engineer; getting to reinvent/rebuild the whole computing stack.
- RealStickman_ 3y agoFinally, the chance to build CCP/IP
- TrueDuality 3y agoThat sounds like it would be an absolute blast.
- RobotToaster 3y agoThe performance they quote also seems to be in x86 compatibility mode, I wonder if you can bypass that and compile for the native architecture.
- monocasa 3y agoMIPS asm, but not MIPS machine code. Different bit encoding.