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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

Chinese-made Loongson 3A6000 CPU makes a debut in $387 mini PC

Morefine M700S Mini PC featuring the Loongson 3A6000 CPU.

A Chinese-made Loongson 3A6000 SoC is making its way into the retail market in the Morefine M700S mini PC. The CPU isn't a top-of-the-line performer compared to currently available AMD and Intel chips, though; The A36000 CPU's performance is equivalent to an Intel Core i3-10100F and about Zen 3 levels of IPC. 

Loongson's chip has four cores and eight threads with clock speeds between 2.0 and 2.5 GHz. At max, it supports up to 64GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM memory. According to the manufacturer, the SoC is made for industrial use, government, education, medicine, and other fields. 

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