> It is notable that China is going gangbusters on building ARM variants rather than coming up with an entirely new architecture. There was the Longsoon which

> It is notable that China is going gangbusters on building ARM variants rather than coming up with an entirely new architecture. There was the Longsoon which had an extended MIPS64 instruction set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson