By Li Panpan

China stopped the supply of Loongson processors based on its LoongArch architecture to countries including Russia because the technology is recognized as strategically important, learned JW Insights from Russian media Kommersant.

Several Russian electronics manufacturers have already tested Chinese processors and believe they could replace Intel if parallel import channels are blocked. While laptops based on Loongson are available for order in the Russian market on AliExpress.

Loongson Corporation was founded in 2002 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to create an alternative to American Intel and AMD processors.

“Although Russian companies were not very dependent on Chinese processors, with a theoretical blocking of parallel imports, they hoped to switch to Loongson solutions,” the source of Kommersant explains.

“The best chipsets in China are used in the military-industrial complex, this is the main reason why they are not available for foreign markets,” a Kommersant source in the electronics market said,

Loogson introduced in early 2021 its own Loongson Instruction Set Architecture (LoongArch), which is compatible with programs written for the Intel (X86) and AMD (ARM) architectures.