[BirAdam]

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.

[throwaway4good]

It is the golden age if you are a Chinese chip designer or operating systems engineer; getting to reinvent/rebuild the whole computing stack.

[RealStickman_]

Finally, the chance to build CCP/IP

[TrueDuality]

That sounds like it would be an absolute blast.

[RobotToaster]

The performance they quote also seems to be in x86 compatibility mode, I wonder if you can bypass that and compile for the native architecture.

[cyp0633]

It's Loongarch, some sort of MIPS + RISC-V.

[unwind]

Wikipedia [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

[russli1993]

The loongarch spec

https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch...

[wuxb]

Chinese 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]

don't both of them breathe fire, though?

[gunship_man]

In chinese mythology, long are also control for rain.

[Jeff_Brown]

Associating 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.

[ficklepickle]

The Welsh have their own dragon (on their flag)

[BirAdam]

This was the reason for Dragon computers btw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64

[Woshiwuja]

Only one that comes to mind is the american eagle lmao

[monocasa]

MIPS asm, but not MIPS machine code. Different bit encoding.