Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake

[rbanffy]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-chipmakers-new-7nm-cpus-reportedly-outperform-intels-raptor-lake-loongson-adopts-tock-tock-tick-strategy-to-close-the-gap-with-intel

[keikobadthebad]

> It will be tapped out [sic] in 2025

So... won't exist until end 2025 and suffer yield difficulties. Nobody can test it. It doesn't sound like it's on the top 10 of Intel's problems even.

[Pet_Ant]

Apparently they moved to their own MIPS-derived ISA... but is it binary compatible? Anyone know?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch

EDIT: apparently not https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LoongArch#Basic_facts

> LoongArch is not binary compatible with either MIPS or RISC-V, although the ISA and ABI show heavy influence of the two.