Loongson, a fabless Chinese CPU manufacturer, announced the successful tapeout of two new processors, the 2K3000 and the 3B6000M, designed for industrial control and mobile, respectively. Both chips employ the same underlying silicon but have been uniquely packaged for their target markets. It's important to note that reaching High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) for these chips may take some time, and we're likely months away from seeing them being produced at scale.
Based on Loongson's roadmap, the 2K3000 family is overdue, as it was initially scheduled for late 2024. The CPU in question offers an eight-core LA364E-based CPU with a base frequency of 2.5 GHz. In-house testing shows the CPU can hit 30 points in integer performance under SPEC CPU2006, which is hard to compare against modern-day CPUs, as the software was retired in 2018.
