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#China’s #Loongson launches homegrown 16-core server #CPU built on #LoongArch architecture — 40W chip with DDR4 ECC and 32 PCIe lanes targets cheap SMB file, database, and web #servers
Support for China’s local software and hardware ecosystem also appears to be a selling point
Unlike the 36C000, which Loongson says matches Intel’s Xeon, company is positioning #3C3000 as a low-cost, high-performance #server CPU for customers that need general-purpose compute rather than AI
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinas-loongson-launches-homegrown-16-core-server-cpu-built-on-loongarch-architecture-40w-chip-with-ddr4-ecc-and-32-pcie-lanes-targets-cheap-smb-file-database-and-web-servers

Loongson's 3C3000 targets budget SMB servers with 16 LoongArch cores, focusing on practical low-power workloads like file, web, and database hosting.

#tech #technology #loongson #servercpu #smb #loongarch

https://techshowup.com/News/Article/019f122d-fd13-77b3-8956-0e16a16e93d1/loongson-3c3000-targets-budget-smb-servers-with-16-loongarch

Lilbits: Half Life on ReactOS, a mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel, and MS PowerToys 0.100

These days you can play plenty of Windows games on Linux PCs thanks to Valve’s proton software. And a growing number of games that were originally made for Windows have also been ported to run natively on Linux.

All of which is to say that if you really want to run an older PC game like Half Life on an open source operating system, you have plenty of options for doing that. But it’s still […]

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch

#Loongson #loongarch #loongarch64

I have gotten my #Loongson 3a5000 to at least POST and make video. I'll have to get a Linux install together to run on it. Anyone know how to make the speaker stop shrieking during the UEFI shell? #loongarch

#LoongArch Promoted To Being An Official Architecture For #Debian14
Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for #Debian #Linux.
LoongArch is the #CPU architecture developed by #Loongson in #China and inspired by #MIPS and #RISCV.  https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-LoongArch64-Official

The Orange Pi Nova is an upcoming single-board PC with a Loongson 2K3000 processor, up to 32GB of DDR4 memory, 2.5 GbE and Gigabit Ethernet, and plenty of other I/O. It'll most likely be a China-only product. https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-nova-teased-with-loongson-2k3000-as-loongson-expands-product-line/ #LoongArch #Loongson #OrangePi #OrangePiNova

#AlpineLinux 3.21: Lean, mean, and #LoongArch-ready
Alpine #Linux follows closely upon the release of a new #LTS kernel version: 6.12
Alpine 3.21 has a raft of other updates along with the kernel: updated development tools including .NET 9, and new desktops including KDE Plasma 6.2, LXQt 2.1, and GNOME 47
The version before this one, Alpine 3.20, added #RISCV back in May. Now, it gains another: the quite #MIPS-like Chinese #Loongson
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/alpine_linux_321/

I've been gathering data for the Chinese #Loongson #MIPS CPU and GPUs, almost no data on the GPUs for the GPU arch tables (need more product IDs for matches), but found a fairly complete listing of Loongson CPUs on https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/loongson/godson_2/2h then found a collection of sample cpuinfo output files, which was enough to create a rough first CPU arch support in #pinxi (next #inxi). Just debugged last bits, seems to be working. Chinese built #Deepin (#Debian derived) supports #LoongArch.