Intel was caught off guard, and the Loongson 12nm chip was announced, and foreign media marveled at the speed
In recent years, China's chip industry has developed rapidly, and there is a tendency to catch up with and surpass the United States. For example, Huawei's self-developed Kirin 9000 chip is not inferior to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 chip, and even in terms of 5G integration, Kirin 9000 is also a head higher than Snapdragon 888.
Although Huawei has been suppressed by the United States in recent years, its self-developed Kirin chips are not foundries. With the launch of Huawei's Mate60 series at the end of August and the Kirin 9000S exhibiting, people understand that Huawei has not given up on the research and development of Kirin chips, and also clearly understands the global strength of China's chip foundry.
Obviously, in the field of mobile phone chips, China is not afraid of the suppression of the United States, and has the strength to integrate chip design, chip production, and chip packaging.
Only in the field of PC chips, China is still relying on American manufacturers such as Intel and NVIDIA. Huawei, Xiaomi, Shenzhou and other PC manufacturers basically rely on Intel and NVIDIA to provide chips. Compared with the technological progress of mobile phone chips, China is weak in the field of PC chips.
Some time ago, Loongson Zhongke officially released the latest PC chips, bringing China's PC chips into the global mainstream level. In this regard, some foreign media said:"It's also too fast.
At the end of November, the national chip giant Loongson Zhongke said in the survey: Loongson 3A6000 will be officially released on November 28, when more than a dozen companies will launch complete products.
As early as August this year, Loongson Zhongke launched the 3A6000 chip, but the chip was not officially listed and did not enter the commercial stage. This time, Loongson officially launched the 3A6000 chip, indicating that the 3A6000 chip has achieved large-scale mass production and has been recognized by midstream and downstream enterprises.
It is reported that Loongson 3A6000 adopts a 12nm process and has 4 64-bit processor cores with a main frequency of 25ghz。Compared with the previous generation of 3A5000 chips, the single-core performance of 3A6000 chips has been improved by more than 60%.
What's even more rare is that Loongson 3A6000 adopts hyper-threading technology, which can reach 4 cores and 8 threads, so the multi-core performance of Loongson 3A6000 is more than 100% higher than that of the previous generation Loongson 3A5000.
Some industry experts have evaluated the overall performance of Loongson 3A6000 and believe that the overall performance of Loongson 3A6000 has reached the level of Intel's 10th generation Core.
Of course, this is only a relatively optimistic view of the industry, so the actual performance of Loongson 3A6000 remains to be evaluated by users.
No matter what level of performance of Loongson 3A6000 reaches, it is certain that the launch of Loongson 3A6000 has far-reaching significance for Chinese PC chips.
The successful launch of Loongson 3A6000 shows that China's PC chip design industry has reached the world-class level, although this chip can not be compared with Intel and NVIDIA's top chips, but Loongson's research and development time is short, and it is indeed commendable to reach the level of Intel and NVIDIA's mid-to-high-end chips in such a short period of time. Perhaps Intel and NVIDIA did not expect Loongson Zhongke to be so fast in research and development, so that chips like Loongson 3A6000 were launched in such a short period of time.
The second significance is that the LoongArch instruction set developed by Loongson Zhongke is adopted by Loongson 3A6000, which has 100% ownership of the instruction set and is independent of RISC-V. The launch of the Loongson instruction set shows the vitality and autonomy of the Loongson instruction set, and also shows that China is no longer controlled by others in the field of instruction set.
With these two important significance, the Loongson 3A6000 chip is destined to become a milestone in China's PC chip and is worthy of the pride of the Chinese people.
In the field of mobile phone chips, we have developed the Kirin 9000S chip, which shows that China has the ability to independently produce mid-to-high-end mobile phone chips. The mass production of Loongson 3A6000 shows that China's PC chips have reached the stage of independent design, and they are not necklaces in the design stage. For this reason, some foreign media said: The development speed of chips is too fast.