Chinese company hopes to launch its first GPGPU in 2025; but Nvidia's H100 is safe for now, as it is 67x faster than its new AI challenger

Known successful China arsenic nan grandfather of home CPUs, Loongson develops processors and chips successful a bid to trim nan country's reliance connected overseas technology, peculiarly from companies specified arsenic Intel and AMD.

Although astir apt best-known for its Loongson bid of processors (originally based connected MIPS architecture), nan institution is branching retired and has unveiled its first self-developed GPGPU (General-Purpose GPU), nan Loongson 9A1000.

Announced astatine nan caller Loongson Industrial Ecosystem Conference, and reported by Fast Technology, nan 9A1000 intends to present competitory capacity for AI computing successful separator devices and unmanned systems. Tech giants for illustration Nvidia tin respire easy for now, however, arsenic nan Loongson 9A1000’s capacity is projected to lucifer nan AMD RX 550, a graphics paper champion known for its businesslike 50W powerfulness depletion and PCIe 3.0 interface, which primitively launched successful 2017.

Arriving adjacent year

The caller Loongson spot isn’t rather arsenic dated arsenic AMD’s card. It supports PCIe 4.0 and integrates LPDDR4X representation pinch a 128-bit interface. Though elaborate specifications, specified arsenic halfway count, frequency, and powerfulness consumption, person yet to beryllium disclosed, an architecture sketch shown astatine nan convention reveals 8 compute arrays, an on-chip network, and L2 cache.

In position of performance, nan 9A1000 supports OpenGL 4.0, OpenCL 3.0, and different modular APIs. It besides includes video processing modules tin of decoding H.264 and H.265 and offers HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, and, successful different motion to nan past, VGA output. The spot boasts a pixel capable complaint of 16GPixel/s, a texture capable complaint of 32GTexel/s, and computing powerfulness of 1TFlops for FP32, 64GFlops for FP64, and 32TFlops for INT8 operations.

The Loongson 9A1000 is expected to complete its tape-out process and statesman sampling successful nan first half of 2025.

Loongson besides announced that it is processing nan next-generation GPGPU chip, nan Loongson 9A2000, which promises an 8-10x capacity boost compared to nan 9A1000. The institution expects nan caller spot to present capacity connected par pinch NVIDIA’s RTX 2080, which launched successful 2018.

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