On December 24, 2019, Loongson Zhongke Technology Co., Ltd. held the 2019 Loongson New Product Release and User Conference with the theme of "New Era, Core Ecology" at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, and released Loongson's new generation of general-purpose CPU products 3A4000/3B4000. More than 4,000 people, including Loongson partners, authoritative media, experts and scholars, and leaders of competent departments, witnessed the release of Loongson's new products.
The Loongson 3A4000/3B4000 uses the same 28nm process as its predecessor, the 3A3000/3B3000, and is optimized to improve performance exponentially. 3A4000/3B4000 uses the latest new generation processor core GS464V developed by Loongson, the main frequency is 1.8GHz-2.0GHz, and the SPEC CPU2006 fixed-point and floating-point single-core scores are more than 20 points, which is more than twice that of the previous generation of products. By optimizing power management, notebooks based on the Loongson 3A4000 have more than doubled their operating time compared to the previous generation. The comprehensive performance of the 3B4000 four-socket server formed by CPU direct connection is more than four times that of the previous generation 3B3000 two-socket server, and the virtual machine efficiency has also increased from more than 85% to more than 95% of the previous generation product. Loongson 3A4000/3B4000 integrates a safety mechanism on the chip to achieve autonomous controllability, safety and reliable unification. Loongson 3A4000/3B4000 can effectively prevent vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre from the mechanism, support encryption and decryption algorithms such as MD5, AES, SHA, support dedicated security and trust modules and national secret algorithms, and support access control mechanisms such as "shadow stack". According to Hu Weiwu, chairman of Loongson Zhongke, the traditional CPU security mechanism is only to add a security and trusted module outside the processor core, and Loongson 3A4000/3B4000 specially designed a security control mechanism in the processor core to achieve intrinsic safety.
Loongson 3A4000/3B4000 emphasizes independent research and development as always. All functional modules in the chip, including CPU cores, on-chip interconnection buses, DDR4 memory controllers and various IO interface modules, are independently designed. All customized modules in the chip, including multi-port register stack, phase-locked loop, DDR4 PHY, high-speed IO interface PHY and other layouts are independently developed. In addition to the basic design environment provided by the tape-out manufacturer, Loongson 3A4000/3B4000 does not use any third-party IP.
Hu Weiwu pointed out in the theme report entitled "Loongson is not afraid of difficulties in expeditions" that since the Loongson team transformed from the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to establish an enterprise in 2010, it found that the "world's advanced level" recognized by the academic community was far from the needs of users. Through trial and error in the market, the Loongson team realized that the main gap between Chinese CPUs and foreign CPUs lies in general processing performance, not dedicated processing performance; It is due to the insufficient performance of the single core, not the insufficient number of cores; It is in the lack of design capabilities, not the lack of advanced technology. Therefore, Loongson Zhongke has been committed to improving the single-core general processing performance through optimized design until 3A4000 completes the design capability "make-up course". According to Hu Weiwu, the 3A4000 general-purpose processing performance is comparable to AMD's 28nm process final product "excavator" processor. On this basis, Loongson will launch the four-core 3A5000 and 16-core 3C5000 using the 12nm process next year, and its main frequency will be increased to more than 2.5GHz, and the general processing performance will reach the level of AMD at that time, marking that after 20 years of efforts, the general processing performance has reached the world's advanced level at the product level.
Hu Weiwu pointed out that the fundamental way out of China's information industry lies in the establishment of a third ecosystem independent of Wintel and ARM+Android systems. To this end, Loongson provides an open source basic version of the operating system to support downstream operating system enterprises, complete equipment enterprises, and solution enterprises to launch product version operating systems. Through the unified system architecture of the basic version of the operating system, Loongson realizes cross-motherboard compatibility and CPU generational compatibility of the operating system, and realizes the compatibility of applications on different machine platforms. At this conference, Loongson Zhongke released the standard specification system of unified system architecture, and established a product certification system by signing certification agreements with OEM/ODM manufacturers. Starting from Loongson 3A4000/3B4000, Loongson CPU and motherboard upgrades do not affect the compatibility of operating systems and applications.
Zhang Ge, vice president of Loongson Zhongke, said in a speech entitled "Loongson Ecology and Solution Sharing" that with the continuous pull of related market demand, Loongson's partners have increased to nearly 1,000, downstream Loongson-based developers have reached tens of thousands, Loongson has many wide applications in various application scenarios such as government and enterprise, security, finance, energy, transportation, education, etc., and Loongson chip shipments in 2019 have reached more than 500,000, and the market share in localized applications is far ahead.
Loongson's important partners released dozens of the latest products based on the Loongson platform at the press conference. Partners including Lenovo, Zhongke Shuguang, Inspur Information, Tongfang, Beyond CNC, Founder, Haier, Baode, Huasheng Information, Shengteng Information, Anheng Information, China Cyber Security Guardstone, Yuweng Information, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, North Institute of Automatic Control Technology, Beijing Institute of Computing Technology and Application, Xi'an Institute of Microelectronics Technology, Beijing Institute of Computer and Electronic Application Technology, Jiangsu Institute of Automation, East China Institute of Computing Technology, and other partners released Loongson 3A4000/ 3B4000 desktop computers, notebooks, all-in-one computers, servers, cloud terminals, network security equipment, industrial control computers and other products. In addition, hundreds of Loongson's partners also exhibited hundreds of solutions based on Loongson chips, and the interactive experience area brought an excellent experience to the on-site experience.
The forum session of the conference is divided into three themes: "Command and Control", "Office and Informatization", and "Network Security and Industrial Control". Speakers from partners and user units brought wonderful reports and conducted in-depth discussions on Loongson products and the construction of China's independent industrial ecology.
Hu Weiwu pointed out that taking the road of "market with technology", mastering the core technology of CPU through independent research and development, and establishing an independent and controllable information technology system, we will only lose the chain, and what we will gain will be the whole world; Take the road of "market for technology" and develop independent CPU products through the introduction of technology, just replace one set of chains with another. There is nothing more arduous and meaningful than being a Loongson for the people and building an independent and innovative information industry system for the country and the nation. The information technology system and industrial ecology of independent innovation are important components of realizing the "Chinese Dream" of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Together with its partners, Loongson will strive to establish an independent innovative information technology system and industrial ecology!
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