Loongson launches 3D5000 CPUs for China's domestic servers

China-based CPU manufacturer, Loongson, has announced its brand new 3D5000 CPUs for the HPC market with up to 32 cores.

The Loongson 3D5000 HPC CPUs will be aimed at China's domestic server market segment and HPC customers. The chips will utilize the LoongArch architecture, WccfTech reports.

The Loongson Technology's "LA" core is a proprietary microarchitecture called LoongArch and is part of the Godson III series. The company claims that the CPUs will offer excellent performance for cloud / super-computing and large data centre workloads while claiming to offer up to 4 times faster performance than typical ARM chips.

As for the platform itself, the Loongson 3D5000 CPUs will feature support on the LGA 4129 socket that supports 150-300W TDP SKUs. At 150W, the top 32-core SKU will have each core sipping in at close to 5W of power. A reference platform has been showcased with 16 DDR4 DIMM slots and a two-way CPU configuration. A vast variety of systems and servers by various China-based vendors were showcased during the event too.

What we have seen with previous Chinese performance claims is that huge numbers are put out but in actual real-world use cases, the performance ends up being totally lacklustre. We hope that's not the case with the Loongson 3D5000 CPUs and that China does find a foothold in the ever-evolving HPC space.