China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon

Chinese chip designer Loongson claims more than 100 products now run on its homegrown LoongArch architecture, including an OpenStack-based cloud stack from domestic hyperscale heavyweight Inspur. Loongson's LoongArch is a proprietary instruction set architecture developed to cut reliance on foreign tech, which is mostly a …

[claimed]

I thought 50 years

But looks like USA tech hegemony is toast in less than that. A billion people market, with integrated trade routes globally, and all you have to do is use software that’s slightly more efficient than the latest emissions from US tech companies like MS and you won’t notice any difference…

Tariffs won’t stop this train. I am absolutely fascinated, watching this, as a Brit. Come on EU, get some home grown kit off the ground and let’s heat up this competition!

[Anonymous Coward]

@claimed - Re: I thought 50 years

Compete with US ? Don't even think of it. You need a pair of Chinese balls for that.

[VoiceOfTruth]

A small correction

"the current trade war with the USA"

Should read: the USA initiated trade war against the world.

[mark l 2]

Even if Lonongson chips are slower than the cutting edge CPUs available from AMD and Intel, on the desktop most people don't really need blistering CPU performance for most of the common office and productivity software. If your office suite or browser takes a few seconds longer to open up than it would on a i9 its hardly a massive issue.

I remember back in the 90s coming into work and switching on the PC running Windows NT 4 and having time to go and make a cup of coffee before it had even got the a login prompt.

[VoiceOfTruth]

I only sort of agree

But people very quickly get used to things being faster and don't want to go backwards. It's a bit like getting used to SSDs then going back to a 4800rpm spinning drive. Things have moved on.

[IGotOut]

Re: I only sort of agree

I run a 10 year old i7 laptop. Never really gave to wait for anything, apart from the new selection tool in Affinity.

Then again, I'm not overly fussed if it takes 10 seconds to open a program, rather than 5.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I only sort of agree

Nah. SSD vs HDD (4800 RPM drives never existed AFAIK BTW) is a whole different comparison. More apt would be SATA vs NVMe PCIe 5. I have a 5900X desktop and an i5-5300U laptop, both quite usable. Then again, HDDs are usable too, as long as you acknowledge their limitations and possibly mitigate them (SSD caches are nice).

[williamyf]

I do not think normal people run openstack on their desktops,

the article being about this chip running openstack leds me to believe that this is NOT a desktop chip

which means, all that talk about desktops was tangential at best