Here’s a company that wants to start an ARMs race by keeping Intel outside

By Desire Athow

Introduction

Earlier this year, a little-known Chinese company emerged as a potential suitor for AMD, the US-based archrival to Intel. That company, Loongson, shares common roots with Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC manufacturer and has quietly amassed a rumoured war chest of 120 billion yuan (about $18.8bn, £12.1bn, AU$26.3bn).

A massive bounty that it may want to use to take on the global microprocessor market (CPU or processors for the rest of us) which is currently dominated by Intel and ARM. We caught up with the president of Loongson, Weiwu Hu, to discuss about the company’s plans.

(Thanks to A.Voica from Imagination Technologies for his help setting up this interview)

Techradar Pro: What computer do you use every day?

Weiwu Hu: [I use] is a laptop that uses our Loongson CPU. I have been using PCs and laptops with Loongson CPUs for my daily work for more than 5 years. In fact, the answers for this Q&A have been written on …read more

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