Loongson is China’s home-grown designer of central processing units, reducing the country’s reliance on Intel and AMD. Photo: Shutterstock
Loongson is China’s home-grown designer of central processing units, reducing the country’s reliance on Intel and AMD. Photo: Shutterstock

Tech war: China’s flagship CPU designer Loongson puts on a brave face amid US sanctions

  • Loongson said it is evaluating the advanced 7-nm process from a number of foundries to manufacture its future chips, which include GPUs
  • The company launched its home-grown 3A5000 CPU at the end of 2020, which was made on a now-restricted process node of 14-nm

Loongson is China’s home-grown designer of central processing units, reducing the country’s reliance on Intel and AMD. Photo: Shutterstock
Loongson is China’s home-grown designer of central processing units, reducing the country’s reliance on Intel and AMD. Photo: Shutterstock
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