Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs

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Today's lesson covers the potential for Loongson's made-in-China architecture to hurt Microsoft and Intel

China's long march towards creation and adoption of its own information technology stack has taken a long stride forward after a school district commenced a trial of 10,000 PCs powered by domestically designed processors.on social messaging service QQ, the city of Hebi – population 1.5 million – has installed nearly 10,000 PCs powered by Loongson's 3A5000 CPU.

The processor runs Loongson's own LoongArch instruction system, a RISC ISA that blends ideas from MIPS and RISC-V. The QQ post states that the PCs will run the Unity OS – a cut of Debian favoured in China – and WPS Office, which is a productivity suite created by Chinese developer Kingsoft. A classroom management platform is also present, as is a management platform allowing the City of Hebi to manage the PC fleet.India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board

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