Loongson: China's home-grown processor builds its ecosystem

[TaiShang]

Loongson: China's home-grown processor builds its ecosystem
(People's Daily Online) May 22, 2015

Hu Weiwu, chief designer of Loongson processors (Photo/Xinhua)

Loongson 3B CPU processor (Photo/Xinhua)

In 2001, 32-year-old Hu Weiwu, a scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology(ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), formed his own team to develop domestic general purpose CPUs. After years of effort, a series of CPUs including the Loongson 1,Loongson 2 and Loongson 3 have emerged. The Loongson CPU based ecosystem is now taking shape.

In 2010, the CAS and Beijing Municipality Government jointly funded and set up the Loongson Technology to industrialize technological achievements. As the chief architect of the company, Hu Weiwu has since then worked on industrialization of the technology.

Loongson Technology has put the focus on customer demand, and worked closely with themiddle and downstream of the industrial chain, both in hardware and software, makinggreat efforts to build the Loongson CPU ecosystem.

They have worked together with many well-known software companies and successfully applied the Linux operating system, Sogou input method, and 360 anti-virus software packages in Loongson desktop products. Thus, the user experience has been significantly improved.

They have cooperated with database providers like Shentong Data and DH Data, middleware and application software providers including Kingdee and TongTech. The Loongson 3A quad-core CPU and Loongson 3B six-core CPU processors serve well on China's smallest proprietary computer - "Sugon's Longteng L200".

The Loongson CPU based ecosystem has taken shape. Loongson CPUs have been appliedin industries ranging from equipment, electric power, petroleum, government office, and network security to finance.

"Our sales last year reached more than 30 million units, and they are expected to increase by multiples this year," said Hu Weiwu. Loongson Technology already obtained funds from CDH Investment in the second half of last year.

The performance of Loongson CPUs has continued to improve in the industrialization process. At the same time, Loongson Technology has accomplished theoretical innovation.
"In recent years, we have achieved substantial improvements in our paper writing - many international counterparts have invited us to give lectures and conduct exchanges.Technological innovation is only high-level innovation when it is in practice," says HuWeiwu.

 

[The Great One (Mod ver)]

Loongson: China's home-grown processor builds its ecosystem
(People's Daily Online) May 22, 2015

Hu Weiwu, chief designer of Loongson processors (Photo/Xinhua)

Loongson 3B CPU processor (Photo/Xinhua)

In 2001, 32-year-old Hu Weiwu, a scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology(ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), formed his own team to develop domestic general purpose CPUs. After years of effort, a series of CPUs including the Loongson 1,Loongson 2 and Loongson 3 have emerged. The Loongson CPU based ecosystem is now taking shape.

In 2010, the CAS and Beijing Municipality Government jointly funded and set up the Loongson Technology to industrialize technological achievements. As the chief architect of the company, Hu Weiwu has since then worked on industrialization of the technology.

Loongson Technology has put the focus on customer demand, and worked closely with themiddle and downstream of the industrial chain, both in hardware and software, makinggreat efforts to build the Loongson CPU ecosystem.

They have worked together with many well-known software companies and successfully applied the Linux operating system, Sogou input method, and 360 anti-virus software packages in Loongson desktop products. Thus, the user experience has been significantly improved.

They have cooperated with database providers like Shentong Data and DH Data, middleware and application software providers including Kingdee and TongTech. The Loongson 3A quad-core CPU and Loongson 3B six-core CPU processors serve well on China's smallest proprietary computer - "Sugon's Longteng L200".

The Loongson CPU based ecosystem has taken shape. Loongson CPUs have been appliedin industries ranging from equipment, electric power, petroleum, government office, and network security to finance.

"Our sales last year reached more than 30 million units, and they are expected to increase by multiples this year," said Hu Weiwu. Loongson Technology already obtained funds from CDH Investment in the second half of last year.

The performance of Loongson CPUs has continued to improve in the industrialization process. At the same time, Loongson Technology has accomplished theoretical innovation.
"In recent years, we have achieved substantial improvements in our paper writing - many international counterparts have invited us to give lectures and conduct exchanges.Technological innovation is only high-level innovation when it is in practice," says HuWeiwu.

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[Bussard Ramjet]

Loongson: China's home-grown processor builds its ecosystem
(People's Daily Online) May 22, 2015

Hu Weiwu, chief designer of Loongson processors (Photo/Xinhua)

Loongson 3B CPU processor (Photo/Xinhua)

In 2001, 32-year-old Hu Weiwu, a scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology(ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), formed his own team to develop domestic general purpose CPUs. After years of effort, a series of CPUs including the Loongson 1,Loongson 2 and Loongson 3 have emerged. The Loongson CPU based ecosystem is now taking shape.

In 2010, the CAS and Beijing Municipality Government jointly funded and set up the Loongson Technology to industrialize technological achievements. As the chief architect of the company, Hu Weiwu has since then worked on industrialization of the technology.

Loongson Technology has put the focus on customer demand, and worked closely with themiddle and downstream of the industrial chain, both in hardware and software, makinggreat efforts to build the Loongson CPU ecosystem.

They have worked together with many well-known software companies and successfully applied the Linux operating system, Sogou input method, and 360 anti-virus software packages in Loongson desktop products. Thus, the user experience has been significantly improved.

They have cooperated with database providers like Shentong Data and DH Data, middleware and application software providers including Kingdee and TongTech. The Loongson 3A quad-core CPU and Loongson 3B six-core CPU processors serve well on China's smallest proprietary computer - "Sugon's Longteng L200".

The Loongson CPU based ecosystem has taken shape. Loongson CPUs have been appliedin industries ranging from equipment, electric power, petroleum, government office, and network security to finance.

"Our sales last year reached more than 30 million units, and they are expected to increase by multiples this year," said Hu Weiwu. Loongson Technology already obtained funds from CDH Investment in the second half of last year.

The performance of Loongson CPUs has continued to improve in the industrialization process. At the same time, Loongson Technology has accomplished theoretical innovation.
"In recent years, we have achieved substantial improvements in our paper writing - many international counterparts have invited us to give lectures and conduct exchanges.Technological innovation is only high-level innovation when it is in practice," says HuWeiwu.

Seems to be a dishonest or partly right thing. An ecosystem is a very very big thing, and I can guarantee more than 99% of the people in the world won't even have heard Longsoon. Not to say that it can change, but it is hard.

Also, what is the architecture of Longsoon?

 

[Economic superpower]

Seems to be a dishonest or partly right thing. An ecosystem is a very very big thing, and I can guarantee more than 99% of the people in the world won't even have heard Longsoon. Not to say that it can change, but it is hard.

Also, what is the architecture of Longsoon?

China's goal is to replace foreign technology with domestically developed technology.

Loongson is design to replace foreign chips in China. It's not for foreigners and China could care less if its not known by foreigners especially jealous Indians.

It's a MIPS based architecture.

Huawei's Hisilicon has Kirin 930 16nm chips for mobile already equipping Huawei phones instead of Qualcomm chips.
Huawei's Kirin 930 balances power & performance using Cortex A53e cores! - GizmoChina - China Phones, Tablets , Gadgets News And Review

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

China's goal is to replace foreign technology with domestically developed technology.

Loongson is design to replace foreign chips in China. It's not for foreigners and China could care less if its not known by foreigners especially jealous Indians.

It's a MIPS based architecture.

Huawei's Hisilicon has Kirin 930 16nm chips for mobile already equipping Huawei phones instead of Qualcomm chips.
Huawei's Kirin 930 balances power & performance using Cortex A53e cores! - GizmoChina - China Phones, Tablets , Gadgets News And Review

Having a domestically designed thing has nothing to do with being popular.
Also, once you actually make a capable processor, you will definitely open it to the rest of the world simply due to commercial reasons.

And if you are so singing the praise of Longsoon. How many laptops sold in China contain Longsoon? Any figures? MIPS architecture isn't even popular any more. The whole ecosystem will have to be redesigned for MIPS. Today it is exclusively based on Intel architectures, or ARM ones.

Having a domestically designed thing has nothing to do with being popular.
Also, once you actually make a capable processor, you will definitely open it to the rest of the world simply due to commercial reasons.

And if you are so singing the praise of Longsoon. How many laptops sold in China contain Longsoon? Any figures? MIPS architecture isn't even popular any more. The whole ecosystem will have to be redesigned for MIPS. Today it is exclusively based on Intel architectures, or ARM ones.

Also, as for Huawei, this is one company that I have deep respect for, and also this is a company that everyone has heard about. Anyone involved in tech, tech reporting, business that is.
Just to point out though, Kirin is based on ARM cores. It also uses Mali GPUs. So there is a long way to go. But yes, Kirin is perhaps the first commercially competitive SoC by a Chinese company.

 

[Economic superpower]

Having a domestically designed thing has nothing to do with being popular.
Also, once you actually make a capable processor, you will definitely open it to the rest of the world simply due to commercial reasons.

And if you are so singing the praise of Longsoon. How many laptops sold in China contain Longsoon? Any figures? MIPS architecture isn't even popular any more. The whole ecosystem will have to be redesigned for MIPS. Today it is exclusively based on Intel architectures, or ARM ones.



Also, as for Huawei, this is one company that I have deep respect for, and also this is a company that everyone has heard about. Anyone involved in tech, tech reporting, business that is.
Just to point out though, Kirin is based on ARM cores. It also uses Mali GPUs. So there is a long way to go. But yes, Kirin is perhaps the first commercially competitive SoC by a Chinese company.

Read the article ya clueless clown.

"The Loongson CPU based ecosystem has taken shape. Loongson CPUs have been appliedin industries ranging from equipment, electric power, petroleum, government office, and network security to finance."

Loongson is designed to replace foreign chips which it is doing in various industries.

Every mobile chip uses ARM architecture, Hisilicon, Qualcomm, etc. So what?

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Read the article ya clueless clown.

"The Loongson CPU based ecosystem has taken shape. Loongson CPUs have been appliedin industries ranging from equipment, electric power, petroleum, government office, and network security to finance."

Loongson is designed to replace foreign chips which it is doing in various industries.

Every mobile chip uses ARM architecture, Hisilicon, Qualcomm, etc. So what?

Clown you are my friend. Loongson has been totally supported and used in Government heavy sectors. It is NOT commercial entity. And you are no near to having a domestic chip.

Read the article ya clueless clown.

"The Loongson CPU based ecosystem has taken shape. Loongson CPUs have been appliedin industries ranging from equipment, electric power, petroleum, government office, and network security to finance."

Loongson is designed to replace foreign chips which it is doing in various industries.

Every mobile chip uses ARM architecture, Hisilicon, Qualcomm, etc. So what?

Not only architecture, but also whole cores. And you were talking about replacing processors.

 

[xunzi]

Clown you are my friend. Loongson has been totally supported and used in Government heavy sectors. It is NOT commercial entity. And you are no near to having a domestic chip.



Not only architecture, but also whole cores. And you were talking about replacing processors.

You are stupid. LOL Loongson is not intend to be commercial use anytime soon due to security reasons because for it to be commercially use, you have to provide architectural design and source code to Microsoft, Apple or any major OS providers so they can design their software to run your chip. This is NOT what we intend it for. The purpose of Loongson is for domestic use on government and state-owned enterprises first. Then it will expand into domestic private business before it even reach the public on the global scale. That is if we even decide to go that route. But for security reasons, there might be another CPU design for public use later on but right now the intention is not.

 

[qwerrty]

loongson or godson chips are mainly designed for high performance computing or for security reasons. they have consumer versions for running shitty *** angry birds, but not priority

 

[TaiShang]

Lenovo Posts a 20% Gain in Annual Revenue
2015-05-22

Yang Yuanqing, chairman and chief executive officer of Lenovo Group Ltd., center, speaks as Gianfranco Lanci, corporate president and chief operations officer, left, and Wong Waiming, chief financial officer, right, listen during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, May 21, 2015. [Photo: CFP]

Lenovo is reporting a 20-percent rise in its annual revenues this past year, reaching over 46 billion US dollars.

However, Lenovo's net profits have only increase by one-percent through 2014, which is below market expectations.

This is largely due to the costs incurred from its purchase of Motorola last year.

The company's mobile phone business has generated some 9-billion US dollars through 2014.

The Chinese firm says its purchase of Motorola last year has made it the third largest smartphone maker in the world.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

You are stupid. LOL Loongson is not intend to be commercial use anytime soon due to security reasons because for it to be commercially use, you have to provide architectural design and source code to Microsoft, Apple or any major OS providers so they can design their software to run your chip. This is NOT what we intend it for. The purpose of Loongson is for domestic use on government and state-owned enterprises first. Then it will expand into domestic private business before it even reach the public on the global scale. That is if we even decide to go that route. But for security reasons, there might be another CPU design for public use later on but right now the intention is not.

It is perfectly understandable if that is what it is for. I am replying to the comment that China is replacing foreign technology, which to me by default includes commercial space.
And China has no capabilities for a top notch chip industry right now.

 

[antonius123]

It is perfectly understandable if that is what it is for. I am replying to the comment that China is replacing foreign technology, which to me by default includes commercial space.
And China has no capabilities for a top notch chip industry right now.

From design to fab manufacturing?
Hisilicon, Rockchip? SMIC?

 

[somebozo]

AMD despite years of innovation is still barely managing it ....making processors and marketing them is a complicated and expensive task..would be better is Chinese put interest in acquiring a mature company such as AMD or Qualcomm and putting it on the path of developing better technology...

 

[Genesis]

AMD despite years of innovation is still barely managing it ....making processors and marketing them is a complicated and expensive task..would be better is Chinese put interest in acquiring a mature company such as AMD or Qualcomm and putting it on the path of developing better technology...

AMD needs to compete against other major American companies in America. China has the home team advantage, which means any Chinese chips automatically has a Chinese presence which AMD doesn't have.

They are more developed internationally, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will capture a bigger market overall.

Also, I'm not sure what the American government's view on sales of these companies are, as we can easily take all the good stuff, and sell the rest for parts, or just absorb the rest into other Chinese companies.

 

[Shotgunner51]

AMD needs to compete against other major American companies in America. China has the home team advantage, which means any Chinese chips automatically has a Chinese presence which AMD doesn't have.

They are more developed internationally, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will capture a bigger market overall.

Also, I'm not sure what the American government's view on sales of these companies are, as we can easily take all the good stuff, and sell the rest for parts, or just absorb the rest into other Chinese companies.

There has been rumours that some Chinese firms are acquiring AMD, but nothing confirmed yet. Anyway AMD is shifting focus to China quickly, there has been talks that they will ship Carrizo-L, their latest chip, to China way before any other markets get to see it. If you are interested in any updates of AMD, you can follow their CEO's tweet.

Lisa Su, CEO and President of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)