Recently, the results of the 20th "China Core" Excellent Product Selection were announced, with Loongson Technology's desktop processor 3A6000 receiving the "Excellent Market Performance Product" award.
More telling than the awards are the data from Beijing's 2025 Centralized Volume-Based Procurement Project for Terminal Equipment: Loongson LoongArch-based products won bids for 13,336 units, accounting for 63% of the total procurement volume of 21,180 units.
Breaking down these 13,336 units, they include 11,787 desktops and 1,549 laptops, covering 45 directly affiliated agencies in Beijing and involving key public welfare sectors such as education, healthcare, and transportation. In the same centralized procurement batch, the ARM architecture took the remaining 37% share, while the x86 architecture did not appear among the winning bids for Beijing municipal terminal centralized procurement.
The technical foundation is Loongson's proprietary LoongArch instruction set, which does not rely on any foreign licenses. The 3A6000 integrates four LA664 physical cores, supports simultaneous multithreading for a total of eight logical cores, runs at a main frequency of 2.5 GHz, and uses a 12nm process. Its SPEC CPU 2006 base single-thread integer score is 51 points, with overall performance roughly equivalent to Intel's 10th-generation Core quad-core processors.
It is worth noting that ecosystem shortcomings are addressed through a two-layer solution. One layer is binary translation, allowing browsers, WeChat, WPS Office, enterprise intranet systems, and web plugins to run on the Loongson platform.
The other layer is a "one-size-fits-all" printer driver engine that directly adapts to existing mainstream printing devices. This allows government and enterprise users to switch CPUs without simultaneously replacing printers, substantially reducing migration costs.
The ramp-up of the 3A6000 is not limited to Beijing. As of May 2026, shipments of this processor to mainstream industries have exceeded one million units. It has won bids in government and party procurement across multiple provinces including Jiangsu, Henan, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Hubei, Shanxi, and Hebei, and also holds a leading position in the government and party markets of cities in Jiangxi, Yunnan, and other regions.
