China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors

Machine translation of Loongson’s announcement of the chips claims they achieved “single-core fixed-point score reaches 30 points based on the actual SPEC CPU2006 Base test at a main frequency of 2.5GHz.” It’s hard to know what to make of that as SPEC CPU 2006 is a benchmarking test that was retired in 2018.

There is no good reason for them to use a benchmark suite that was retired 7 years ago. Something is not right.