Chinese state-owned consumer electronics company Tongfang has joined hands with chipmaker Loongson, UOS developer Tongxin, and CLP Technology to achieve a new leap in the performance of the Tongfang L860-T2 laptop, boosting the boot speed by nearly 100% to reduce boot time to just 14 seconds.

Company officials said that this is a breakthrough in the boot speed of China’s domestically developed notebooks, remarking that such computers have moved from “available” to “easy to use” (via My Drivers).

The Tongfang L860-T2 laptop is equipped with the Loongson 3A5000 quad-core processor and boots into the Linux-based UOS operating system atop the Kunlun BIOS architecture. It is equipped with a 14-inch display with a resolution of 1920*1280. The device is fairly thin and lightweight too, with a thickness of 18mm and a weight of 1.7kg.

The Loongson 3A5000 quad-core processor was released in July last year and is actually the first to adopt the independent instruction system LoongArch, which is compatible with MIPS, ARM, and x86 instruction sets. The processor represents a milestone for China in the field of chip design.

In terms of specs, the 3A5000’s four cores can achieve a maximum frequency of 2.5GHz, with each core adopting a 64-bit superscalar GS464V autonomous microstructure comprising 4x fixed-point units, 2x 256-bit vector arithmetic units, and 2x memory access units.

Rui Wang, SVP of Intel Corporation, in a report by Digitimes earlier said that “so far there have not been any local companies that are a substantial threat to Intel,” but that in 3-5 years, “it will become clear that local companies will emerge as strong rivals.”

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