Loongson LS3C6000 Server Processor Nearing Completion

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A MyDrivers news report suggests that Loongson's LS3C6000 server processor has reached the tape-out phase of development—the article's author appears to be quite excited about this chip's prospects; a performance uptick could position it closer to past generation Intel and AMD parts. The company's proprietary LA664 "LoongArch" instruction set will be deployed on a chip design that accommodates 16 cores with simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) and 32 threads. In-house engineers think that the 3C6000 processor series is just as performant as Zen 3 and Tiger Lake (11th-gen Core) architectures, in terms of instructions per clock (IPC).

Loongson has reportedly deployed its Dragon Chain interconnect technology with the 3C6000 generation—the I/O interface is said to be much improved over current 3C5000-based server products. Company engineers have: "solved the bottleneck in the expansion of the number of processor cores. In the future, the company will also seal 32-core processors on the basis of 3C6000. 64-core products are possibly incoming later on." The MyDrivers article proposes that Loongson is targeting growing demand within China's server market, but LS3C6000 remains a "big project" that requires further compatibility and performance optimizations.



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[P4-630]

But is it any good to run Crysis on Chinese windows?....

 

[thesmokingman]

The unintended consequence of placing sanctions on China to prevent them from using US chips. They'll just make their own and eventually catch up, brilliant.

 

[LabRat 891]

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'Still can't not pronounce their name as "long soon" (like "monsoon"). "Loong Son" doesn't 'compute' in my head, for some reason.
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The unintended consequence of placing sanctions on China to prevent them from using US chips. They'll just make their own and eventually catch up, brilliant.

 

[R-T-B]

The unintended consequence of placing sanctions on China to prevent them from using US chips. They'll just make their own and eventually catch up, brilliant.

lolno. Loongson has been in development since literally decades before sanctions. This is the end of a long road for them. If anything, the impact of sanctions has yet to be seen.

 

[Geofrancis]

lolno. Loongson has been in development since literally decades before sanctions. This is the end of a long road for them. If anything, the impact of sanctions has yet to be seen.

They are for Chinese government, intel and amd or even arm are irrelevant in that market. It just has to be fast enough and manufacturable in China. They even run their own architecture, its not x86 or arm.

 

[R-T-B]

They are for Chinese government, intel and amd or even arm are irrelevant in that market. It just has to be fast enough and manufacturable in China. They even run their own architecture, its not x86 or arm.

Yes? I never claimed otherwise. My only point was they were making this with or without sanctions.

But they use a mips derived architecture last I checked. I owned one of their very early consumer pcs.