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LoongArch is their domestic RISC ISA that isn't related to MIPS, which is what the chips in this post are. They're actually pretty solid and compare performance wise with relatively modern low-spec x86 equivalents from Intel & AMD (you can see some basic benchmarks towards the end of the YouTube video I linked below).
LoongArch Reference Manual
Loongson CPU approaches traditional x86 performance in new benchmarks
Hands on with China's Loongson 3A6000 PC: It works!
LoongArch is cool and based, but I take issue with the phrase "isn't related to MIPS". LoongArch is a massive advancement, but MIPS is very much in the DNA of the architecture. This post by one of the very prominent people in the LoongArch community does a very good job illustrating the differences and many many similarities.
Maybe "isn't related to MIPS" was a bad way to word it, woops. I meant it as in it's their own ISA that doesn't require a license from MIPS Technologies/Imagination/whoever owns the rights to MIPS these days, wasn't denouncing it's similarities to MIPS. Even the Loongson kernel developers themselves said "LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V". Sorry for the confusion to anyone who made have read my earlier post!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: