Loongson: A pure Chinese chip with a new lease of life

Speaking of chips, they have always been the focus of our country's development. In the past, the United States has restricted exports, forcing my country to develop domestic products. For example, in 2015, the US government banned companies from exporting technology to Chinese facilities related to the world's fastest supercomputer, which was a blow to Chinese supercomputers. Tianhe-1A and Tianhe-2 were restricted in their development.

In the past, CPU chips, which represent the world's top IT technology, have been monopolized by foreign giants such as Intel, and Chinese companies and consumers have paid huge copyright fees for them. Fortunately, Shenzhou Loongson Company has successively launched "Loongson 1" and "Loongson 2", breaking China's history of having no "core". The birth of "Loongson" is praised by industry insiders as a milestone on the road to national science and technology industrialization. The successful development of the commercialized "Loongson" No. 1 CPU indicates that China has broken the foreign monopoly and has initially mastered the key technologies of contemporary CPU design. It has taken an important step to change the "no core" situation of China's information industry and has played an important role in promoting China's formation of a computer industry with independent intellectual property rights.

Recently, Loongson has ushered in new hope and released its first app store. With the joint efforts of Deepin Technology and Loongson Technology, the Loongson version of Deepin App Store v1.0 was officially released today. It is an application that integrates application display, download, installation, comment and rating. It is understood that the Loongson version of Deepin App Store aims to better improve the "Longshen" ecological chain. At present, it has integrated more than 300 types of application software to meet the regular needs of daily users.

It has always been the country's strategy and dream for domestic processors to "replace" processors from international companies such as Intel and AMD. Now, the dream has truly come true with the TaihuLight computer. Due to the lack of an ecological system, China can only "cross the river by feeling the stones" to develop its own processors. Many years ago, Dr. Hu Weiwu, the architect of the Loongson processor, also explained: "Our CPU can also be the best in the world, and we have it. The key is that it cannot be used and users don't use you." The reality of the software ecosystem dictates that it is impossible to develop domestic processors from scratch.

There was a saying that we can make the world's No. 1 CPU, and we have it, but the key is that someone has to use it. But now that we have an application ecosystem, it can be said that it is moving in a good direction. In the civilian stage, Loongson laptops already have products, but it is still in the stage of providing upstream and downstream manufacturers. And judging from the positioning of this business notebook and the high appearance of this notebook, the cost and selling price may be relatively high. Moreover, the new generation of Loongson has finally basically reached the same level as major foreign manufacturers in terms of the core technical microstructure of the CPU, with a gap of only 5%. At present, Loongson is building and improving the software and hardware ecosystem. There are already hundreds of partners who develop downstream solutions based on Loongson's CPU. I believe there will be further breakthroughs in the future.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.