Loongson CPU makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
Loongson CPU makes its way to Chinese mini PCs

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Loongson CPU makes its way to Chinese mini PCs

Loongson CPU makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
Loongson CPU makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
Why not go all in with RISC-V instead of creating their own "LoongArch" cpu architecture?
Because they want to
add hardware surveillance devices to itsay that they made their own architecture? Yk how these communistic countries love to show offAh yeah, the only ones that like to show off
Ftfy
Yk how these
communisticcountries love to show offAlso you can do riscv and backdoors.
Nothing about RISC-V disallows hardware-level surveillance. Most if not all surveillance hardware on our devices are really just super-low-power ARM CPUs. You can in theory just make a RISC-V chip capable of doing the same work.
I do think you're probably right that it's more about having exclusive control over the intellectual property and the ISA specification. RISC-V does allow you to close-source your chip designs, but the foundation behind it was only moved to a relatively-neutral country (Switzerland) in 2019, which is some years after Loongson moved to proprietary CPU designs.
They're the only ones going proprietary as far as i know, most are going for RISC-V
Uh...profit? They only have one religion in China.
But RISC-V is royalty-free and already supported by Linux and most compiler toolchains. Surely adopting it is more profitable because they don't need to maintain their own fork of Linux kernel and compiler toolchains to support their custom CPU architecture.