A Chinese home-grown microprocessor, sometimes called Godson and sometimes called Loongson, has been transferred to a 65-nm manufacturing process technology with help from EDA company Synopsys Inc. Loongson Technology Co. Ltd., which is funded by the Institute of Computing Technologies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, achieved first-pass silicon success for its 65-nanometer, multicore Loongson-3 CPU design, according to Synopsys.
Synopsys outlined the significance of its EDA tools in a press release but did not include details of when the tape-out had occurred, whether this was a four- or eight-core chip, or on whose 65-nm process the Loongson-3 chip was implemented. In 2007 an agreement was reached for Loongson chips to be manufactured and marketed by STMicroelectronics NV.
