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Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs (www.theregister.com)
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[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

There's this back story about the "LoongArch instruction system, a RISC ISA that blends ideas from MIPS and RISC-V". The article says it is MIPS-compatible and even runs the same Linux code [Loongson's] old MIPS-based CPUs did. Why not just use RISC-V? MIPS is licensed from the USA. I guess they have a lot of legacy people at Loongson.