On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Miod Vallat <m...@online.fr> wrote: > > The 3A systems are a completely different design. In addition to the > CPU being multicore and using a completely different crossbar, the > northbridge is now an AMD chip. A lot of work is needed to run on it, > which is not worth starting until these systems are readily available. > > Unfortunately it seems Lemote can not produce enough of them for the > foreign market, and I am told the ATX motherboard flavour (which would > be much more interesting for server systems, or simply to use better > disks than 2.5" ones) is not intended to be sold outside China. > > Miod > > 3A is not available even in China. I think there are just some sample machines out there. I've been keeping an close eye on Lemote's online store and its BBS, but don't know how to get one yet.
By the way, someone posted a line on 3A benchmark, in case anyone is interested: http://openbenchmarking.org/s/ICT%20Loongson-3A%20V0.5%20FPU%20V0.1 -Alan Cheng
