On June 26, 2025, an annual technology event that brings together all parties from government, industry, academia and research - "2025 Loongson Product Release and User Conference" was held in Beijing. This conference not only released the new generation of Loongson Technology processor products, but also showed its strategic layout, ecological achievements and technological breakthroughs to the outside world to build an independent information technology system at a deeper level. This is not only an ordinary new product launch conference, but also a key declaration of domestic computing architecture from the edge to the mainstream.
Ⅰ. The awakening of domestic instruction sets: the core signal released by the conference
In the past few decades, the global information technology ecosystem has been revolving around the two camps of X86 and ARM. Loongson Technology has chosen the difficult but necessary "third way" - completely independent research and development of the command system (Dragon architecture), microarchitecture and core IP. The industry significance of this strategy was fully affirmed in the speeches of many government leaders at the opening of the conference.
Shi Huikang, deputy director of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out: "The CPU is the core, and the instruction set is the root. He stressed that in order for China's information industry to be truly independent and controllable, it must grasp the instruction set, which is the underlying foundation of information technology. This point of view is not only a high degree of recognition of Loongson's "dragon architecture" technology path, but also a strategic guidance for domestic processors to break through the "stuck neck" dilemma.
Representatives of the governments of Beijing and Haidian District have also expressed their stance that they will continue to increase policy support and cultivate a full-stack independent ecology of "from chips to complete machines", showing that the information and innovation industry has risen to the key strategic direction of national and regional coordinated promotion.
Figure: 2025 Loongson product launch and user conference
Ⅱ. the ability of the technical base has jumped: a qualitative leap from following to running
Hu Weiwu, chairman of Loongson, pointed out in his speech entitled "Today's Long Tassel in Hand" that "China cannot build a house on someone else's wall forever. Behind this highly symbolic sentence is Loongson's persistence on the "independent + original" track for more than ten years.
The two blockbuster products released at this conference, Loongson 3C6000 series server processor and 2K3000/3B6000M general-purpose processor, have entered the mainstream market competition in terms of performance, security, energy efficiency and ecological adaptation.
1. Loongson 3C6000: Benchmarked against Intel Xeon for the first time
The 3C6000 processor adopts a 16-core design, based on the fourth-generation independent microarchitecture, and the SPEC CPU2017 score has reached 7.3/55 (single/multi-threaded), which is comparable to Intel's third-generation scalable Xeon series, and even surpasses some indicators. Its completely self-developed instruction system and IP without foreign authorization make it a real "zero dependence" high-performance server chip in China, which is an unprecedented breakthrough in the domestic CPU field.
2. Loongson 2K3000/3B6000M: A New Exploration of AI Edge Intelligence
This processor for industrial control and intelligent computing scenarios integrates the self-developed second-generation GPU and AI computing module for the first time, with a single precision of 256 GFLOPS and AI fixed-point computing of 8TOPS, laying a computing foundation for future edge AI terminals and domestic mobile terminals, which also means that Loongson's products are extending from general-purpose CPUs to heterogeneous fusion system platforms.
Ⅲ. It is not only "chip release" - building an ecosystem is the battlefield that determines life and death
The "success" of processors is not limited to hardware, and building a healthy and sustainable software and application ecosystem is a sign of the maturity of the industry. In this regard, this conference gave a strong proof through the cooperation case of Loongson and China Telecom e Cloud.
3. e Cloud × Loongson: Xinchuang has moved from "usable" to "easy to use".
As the industry's first large-scale cloud computer platform based on Loongson server deployment, e Cloud has achieved concurrent access to 4000+ terminals, with continuous and stable operation for more than 1000 days. In the Zhengzhou Airport project, the Loongson CPU was used to reduce power consumption by 65%, save millions of electricity bills, and migrate software by 95%. This not only verifies the stability of Loongson in the real business, but also releases a signal: China's fully independent command system has the ability to be industrialized and deployed.
In addition, Hblock's domestic storage controller adapts to the Loongson architecture, and Loongson's ecological partners cover multiple links such as servers, terminals, and industrial control, and are gradually forming a "domestic ecological flywheel" that is de-Intel, de-ARM, and de-licensensing.
Ⅳ. The other side of "ecological wall breaking": the difficulty and persistence of technological independence
The progress displayed by Loongson this time is not only a technological progress, but also a phased verification of the "technology independence" roadmap. However, the road is not easy. Hu Weiwu mentioned in his speech: "Even if you build a full-stack technical system from hardware to application, it is ten times more difficult than doing the X86 ecosystem.”
Loongson adheres to the concept of "three autonomy" - independent instruction set, independent IP, and independent process compatibility, which not only challenges the engineering limit, but also puts forward extremely high requirements for the collaborative ability of the industrial chain. How to make domestic databases, operating systems, middleware, and industrial software fully adapt to the Dragon architecture is still a huge and complex system project.
It is worth affirming that a number of technical backbones at this conference, such as Zhang Ge, vice president of Loongson, and Shu Menghao, chief engineer, respectively made detailed disclosures on the progress of high-performance server systems and GPUs. From the combination of software and hardware to ecological co-construction, from heterogeneous computing power to AI empowerment, Loongson's technology roadmap is not only an internal plan of a company, but also a domestic IT ecological construction project from "0 to 1".
Ⅴ. The strategic significance of Loongson: to build a national experimental field for the world's "third set" information system
In addition to Intel's X86 architecture and ARM's licensing business model, the "Dragon architecture system" represented by Loongson is trying to build China's own information computing system in a de-authorized and autonomous full-stack way. This model is not a simple domestic substitution, but a systematic reconstruction "starting from the origin".
In the context of the current Sino-US scientific and technological competition and the rise of key core technology security as a national strategy, Loongson plays an increasingly important role. It is not only a hard science and technology enterprise, but also a kind of "model experimental field" of the national technology independence line.
Ⅵ. After the conference: Embrace global ecological cooperation with a more open mind
At the end of his speech, Hu Weiwu pointed out that Loongson should promote ecological co-construction with a more open attitude in the future. The conference also did reflect the obvious change trend from "Loongson alone" to "co-building an ecosystem": more than 40 partners launched Loongson server products at the conference, and more than 30 landed 2K3000 applications, which marked a "". The "small ecosphere" is taking shape.
In the next step, if Loongson can continue to expand the ecological deployment in vertical scenarios such as Linux, databases, industrial control, and education, and build an experience barrier that is "easy to use" or even "better than alternative".The idea of the world's third information computing system may really be implemented.
Conclusion: From "Long Tassel in Hand" to "Sword of Breaking the Game".
The 2025 Loongson product launch and user conference is not only a display of the company's phased achievements, but a centralized review of the road to independence of the domestic information technology system. From government policies to technological breakthroughs, from ecological cooperation to market verification, Loongson Technology's exploration of the autonomous computing system has shifted from "feasible" to "how to become stronger".
At the moment of reshaping the world's digital pattern, Loongson is not only a national project to "make up for shortcomings", but also a "sword" for China's chip industry to become technologically independent.
We may be optimistic that in the next five years, the domestic command system will no longer be an "alternative" option, but a powerful pole of "mainstream optional".
