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Russia pivots to Chinese CPUs that aren't subject to US sanctions — Russia's homegrown Linux-based Alt OS now supports Chinese LoongArch chips (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I wish the chinese just used RISC V. They are using open source software anyway, why not use open hardware? I remember watching a video from CGTN about their new RISC V processor that runs Linux, with performance near i5.

But anyway, The Russians better follow GPL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They're probably looking at it and trying, but it'll take years to ramp it up to where ARM is, it's the decades of toolchains and support and libraries around ARM and x86 that are sticky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

For anything new or interesting, they (and many others) are. But Loonsoon exists today, which is probably what Russia wants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Most of China supersuper maker are using RISC V. For desktop, China will not intervene too much. China like competition, x86, ARM, RISC V, Loongarch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

China already has a bunch of RISC-V chips in the works, but that takes time. Meanwhile, their MIPS chips have been around for 15+ years at this point and have high availability.