Sunway (processor)


Sunway, or ShenWei,, is a series of computer microprocessors, developed by Jiāngnán Computing Lab in Wuxi, China. It uses a reduced instruction set computing architecture, but details are still sparse.

History

The Sunway series microprocessors were developed mainly for the use of the military of the People's Republic of China. It is expressed on online forums that the original microarchitecture is believed to be inspired by the DEC Alpha. The SW-3 is thought especially to be based on the Alpha 21164.
Jack Dongarra states about the follow-on SW26010, the "Shenwei-64 Instruction Set ", and doesn't say it's a new instruction set from the three prior generations he names; although precise details of the instruction set are unknown.

Sunway SW-1