1y ago

Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

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1y ago

Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/motherboards/motherboards-and-systems-with-chinas-loongson-cpus-now-shipping-to-us-customers-options-start-from-dollar373-for-a-dtx-board-with-processor-and-cooler

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we hope will will see some reviews by western media, with clear comparisons against AMD and Intel solutions.
So Tom's Hardware is hoping that someone with motherboard expertise will step up and test these things proper so (presumably) Tom's Hardware can report the results.
/s
If they can compete with AMD instead of the dying intel, sure, why not?
Are they x86 to begin whith or r they another ARM based cpu?
- It is a custom architecture somewhat related to MIPS
Nope.
Is there even a reason to continue development of Loongson now that China's deep into RISCV?
Now with free spyware/backdoor!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
  
  Western corporate media’s wild rumors of GINA spyware > known NSA spyware.
  
  Hey, it"s not bad if it's the US doing it... freedom for everyone
  EternalBlue says hi
- He said, on his qualcomm-based phone
  
  Jokes on you. My phone is two soup cans and a length of string.
- As if the american based companies don't do the same lol
  
  Yes, and....? Did I claim otherwise anywhere? Privacy isn't a zero sum game. You cant fully protect yourself short of ditching tech and the Internet entirely. And even then, there's already a digital footprint left behind you'll never get rid of. But you can make informed choices like not trusting Google or Microsoft to host your personal data, not buying the smart home devices, keeping data local only/host your own cloud, use Linux instead of Windows, etc.
- Yellow peril
  
  That's quite a leap, isn't it? When China has demonstrably expressed intent in data mining the world.
  https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/chinese-hackers-are-using-backdoors-to-gain-unrestricted-access-to-companies-and-governments-and-its-not-about-the-money/articleshow/75796403.cms
  https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523701/huawei-vodafone-italy-security-backdoors-vulnerabilities-routers-core-network-wide-area-local
  https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-hacking-group-backdoors-products-from-three-asian-gaming-companies/
  Plenty more examples if you look even briefly.

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