11-month old Russian outfit claims it has developed 16-core and 32-core processors, flaunts Cyrillic-badged processors — chips appear to be sanctions-swerving rebadged Chinese Loongson processors | Tom's Hardware
> Chinese Loongson 3C6000 CPUs now have heat spreaders with words in Cyrillic?
Ok now that's cool looks like Asus finally puts out Firmware updates for their released #Loongson #LoongArch motherboards public.
Here for XC-LS3A6M:
https://www.asus.com.cn/supportonly/xc-ls3a6m/helpdesk_bios/
Here for XC-LS3A6M-A:
https://www.asus.com.cn/supportonly/xc-ls3a6m-a/helpdesk_bios/
Way more stable and fan controls work now.
Weird new computer arrived. While it looks like a regular mini-PC it has a Loongson 3A6000 CPU with 4 cores, 8 threads and a MIPS derived instruction set architecture (ISA). The aim is to install Chimera Linux on it, and have it be a test bed for building packages, and testing software compatibility. Depending on power consumption I might give it some server duties too.
📊 How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/23/how-good-are-chinese-cpus-benchmarking-the-loongson-3a6000/
#china #cpu #loongson #computing #hardware #benchmarks #performance #competition
I maintain a few widely used libraries that have optimized code paths based on the specific processor being used. We started supporting Loongson processors in recent years, but I did not have access to a Loongson processor until now. To my knowledge, they are not widely distributed in North America. This made it difficult for … Continue reading How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
Linux 6.18 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 6.18 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), which will likely become the next LTS kernel: So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged and pushed out. Most of the last-minute fixes are minor fixes to drivers, with some random noise elsewhere (bluetooth, ceph, afs..). Nothing strikes me as standing out, but hey, there's a shortlog appended if you want to see the details. And this obviously means that the merge window will open tomorrow, and I already have three dozen pull requests pending. Thanks. And as I already mentioned a couple of weeks ago in one
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