Russia pivots to Chinese CPUs that aren't subject to US sanctions — Russia's homegrown Linux-based Alt OS now supports Chinese LoongArch chips
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First Russian Linux OS ported to LoongArch.
  • appel@whiskers.bim.boats
    9·
    1 year ago

    From what I gather it seems like LoongArch is not RISCV, but takes some parts from it? But it is still a RISC ISA. I wonder why not just go all in on RISCV? This also does not seem to be open source either. I guess there is still a profit motive. Good news, but imo a bit of a shame that they aren’t putting their effort into RISCV instead

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      RISCV is being focused on in China. It’s just not a part of this particular development. I guess RISCV is not ready for production use at the current moment but it is likely to change in the future. Huawei for example is investing in RISCV.

    • starhonker@lemmygrad.mlOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      On the other hand China has to balance the private economy to push forward as well in the tech industry, and LoongArch is perfect for that in a commercial context, especially now that US lawmakers are seeking to literally “block” China from using RISC-V (good luck with that), it at least provides an excuse, and plus it’s far away enough from both MIPS and RISC-V to be categorized as its own thing. But no despair, there are great RISC-V projects out there, take a look at Milk-V, they released their Mars board and it’s been a huge success. By no means is it being sidelined, but I also recognize as sobuddywhoneedsyou said below that RISC-V is relatively early in the adoption phase, especially with the ARM hype right now, so maybe going slow is for the best.