
Loongson is one of the few CPU developers from China not expected to be directly hit by U.S. sanctions. It uses the MIPS-originated LoongArch instruction set architecture (ISA) and employs a China-based foundry to make its chips. This is perhaps why Loongson has quite an ambitious roadmap that spans across markets and includes datacenter CPUs with up to 128 cores, according to slides published by EE Times China.
