Back when LoongArch was announced, RISC-V did not yet have enough (ratified) extensions to achieve feature-parity. Even if it had, LoongArch is much more simil

Back when LoongArch was announced, RISC-V did not yet have enough (ratified) extensions to achieve feature-parity. Even if it had, LoongArch is much more similar to MIPS. LoongSon would have had to make more microarchitectural changes before being able to tape out their first non-MIPS CPU.