TIL: LoongArch is a new MIPS CPU made by the Chinese company Loongson [1]. It looks like early benchmarks are middling. That said I don't see any indication of power consumption.
>Loongson has been very busy this year bringing up LoongArch, their new downstream of the MIPS CPU architecture. They have been working on porting the Linux kernel to LoongArch as well as the open-source code compilers and related components for what they aim to be a Chinese domestic high performance CPU.
Their chips "Loongson" appeared long before RISC-V is a thing in 2002, when MIPS is still widely used in the embeddeed world. I guess they just do not want to drop the experience accumulated in developing their previous chips.
Related: LoongArch port of Go (loong64/linux) is in the works as well. See [1]. Maybe it could even get into Go 1.19, if the branch is successfully merged in the next one or two months.
>Loongson has been very busy this year bringing up LoongArch, their new downstream of the MIPS CPU architecture. They have been working on porting the Linux kernel to LoongArch as well as the open-source code compilers and related components for what they aim to be a Chinese domestic high performance CPU.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LoongArc...