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China's next-gen CPUs and GPUs prepare to challenge last-gen Intel and AMD in 2027 — Loongson 3B6600 and 9A1000 aim to match Intel's 12th Gen and AMD's RX 550

Loongson has provided updates on the company's upcoming 3B6600 processor and 9A1000 graphics card during its 2025 annual and 2026 Q1 earnings calls.

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Russian-Chinese Irtysh 32-core CPU runs The Witcher 3 at 30+ FPS — heavyweight chip still imposes CPU bottleneck despite impressive specs

Russian YouTube channel PRO Hi-Tech shows what the 32-core Irtysh C632 processor can achieve in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt when paired with an AMD Radeon RX 9600 XT graphics card.

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11-month old Russian outfit claims it has developed 16-core and 32-core chips, flaunts Cyrillic-badged processors — chips appear to be sanctions-swerving rebadged Chinese Loongson processors

Russia-based Tramplin Electronics obtains samples of Loongson's LS3C6000 processors with Cyrillic inscriptions, claims these are its own CPUs.

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China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks

One of Loongson's 12-core CPUs has been benchmarked by Phoronix. The Linux outlet discovered the chip is three times slower on average than AMD's latest six-core CPU the Ryzen 5 9600X.

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China's entry-level GPU with AMD RX 550-level of performance is ready for tapeout — Loongson 9A1000 is finally off the drawing board and headed to fabs

Chinese manufacturer Loongson Technology has completed development on the company's 9A1000 graphics card, and it's ready for tapeout.

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New homegrown China server chips unveiled with impressive specs — Loongson's 3C6000 CPU comes armed with 64 cores, 128 threads, and performance to rival Xeon 8380

Loongson has finally released its 64-core 3C6000 data center CPU, featuring CPU performance equivalent to 2023 Intel and AMD data center processors such as the Xeon 8380.

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Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions

Multiple publicly traded Chinese companies have notified their investors that the recently imposed tariffs from the trade war do not concern them largely because US sanctions have already prevented them from selling into the US.

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Chinese chipmaker Loongson's new laptop and industrial chips have higher core counts, better GPU

Loongson has successfully taped out its eight-core 2K3000 and 3B6000M chips, designed for mobile/industrial devices, including an iGPU capable of lightweight AI acceleration.

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Chinese chipmaker claims new Loongson 3B6600 CPU could hit 13th-Gen Intel performance

Loongson claims that its 3B6600 CPU will have the same performance as 13th-gen Intel chips.

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Chinese competitor to AMD and Intel claims its 32-core processor is as powerful as a 2021 Intel Xeon 32-core 'Ice Lake' CPU; a 64-core version is expected to be launched in 2025

Loongson's 3C6000 series processors rival Intel Xeon chips, showcasing China's semiconductor progress.

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Chinese desktop PC chipmaker Loongson now has chips running the Tiangong Space Station

Loongson's chips are now available in space - powering computations on the Tiangong Space Station.

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Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake — Loongson adopts "tock-tock-tick" strategy to close the gap with Intel

Chinese CPU manufacturer Loongson is purportedly closing the gap quickly to Western CPU manufacturers regarding raw performance.

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Chinese rival to Intel and AMD vows to close performance gap with trio of CPUs nicknamed Three Musketeers

Chinese chip maker Loongson is launched a trio of CPUs nicknamed Three Musketeers

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Chinese company hopes to launch its first GPGPU in 2025; but Nvidia's H100 is safe for now, as it is 67x faster than its new AI challenger

Chinese chip maker Loongson is creating its first GPGPU, a rival to an AMD GPU from 2017

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Next-gen Chinese GPU touts RTX 2080-level performance — Loongson claims 9A2000 is up to 10x faster than the 9A1000

Chinese chipmaker Loongson has a new GPU in development that blows its entry-level 9A1000 out of the water. According to a senior company executive speaking today, the upcoming Loongson 9A2000 will deliver performance that is '8-10 times that of 9A1000,' according to reports.

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Chinese chipmaker teases “world-leading” performance of next-gen 7nm CPU — 3B6600 rocks eight LA864 cores clocked at 3 GHz

Longsoon talks about the company’s next-generation 3B6600 CPU slated for 2025

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Chinese chipmaker Loongson claims its 16-core 3C6000 CPU matches Intel's Ice Lake 16-core Xeon Silver 4314

Loongson's 16-core 3C6000 datacenter CPU offers performance comparable to that of Intel's Xeon Silver 4314 'Ice Lake' processor, so it will still be around four years behind market leaders.

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China's telco companies are gradually shifting to Chinese CPUs — telecom giants switch hundreds of thousands of their servers to homegrown CPU platforms

China's telco giants are increasing their procurement of G-series servers, which are based on CPUs carrying a Chinese badge yet are based on American and U.K. ISAs or even developed in the U.S.

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Chinese MIPS rival to Intel and AMD set to launch a 128-core server CPU to compete in the busy market — EPYC and Xeon fans need not worry for now but do keep an eye on the NVLink-like tech

Loongson's 3C6000 processor is set to be released Q4 in China, along with its NVLink-like Coherent Link technology.

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Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

DIY PC builders have another option from AliExpress, with two new motherboards supporting the Loongson 3A6000 System-on-a-Chip from China.

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Lenovo adopts Chinese Loongson CPUs for cloud servers — 16-core Loongson 3C5000 chips necessary to rebuff US sanctions

Lenovo puts Loongson's 3C5000 and 3A6000 CPUs into its datacenters.

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Chinese chipmaker samples 128 core server CPU with chiplets — Infinity Fabric-like interconnect in Loongson's 3E6000 combines four chips into one

Loongson has announced that samples of its 3C6000, 3D6000, and 3E6000 server chips have been successfully taped out and tested, and that production is on track for Q4 2024 releases.

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Loongson's ambitious CPU roadmap shows 128-core chiplet-based processors incoming

Loongson's LoongArch CPU family is set to expand to include 128-core datacenter processors in the coming years.

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Chinese-made GPU beats performance of 10-year-old integrated AMD graphics — Lingjiu GP201 hits mass production

Another Chinese company, Lingjiu Microelectronics, has entered the GPU space with a valiant effort that isn't impressing anyone yet. However, the company carries the potential to excite eventually, if it can continue to build on this foundation.

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Homegrown Chinese CPUs are catching up to AMD and Intel — Loongson 3B6600 and 3B7000 allegedly match Intel 10th Gen CPU performance

Loongson revealed two domestically made CPUs for China's mainstream market due to independent research and development, having its IPC matching with Zen 3 and Intel Comet Lake CPUs.

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