A MyDrivers news report suggests that Loongson's LS3C6000 server processor has reached the tape-out phase of development—the article's author appears to be quite excited about this chip's prospects; a performance uptick could position it closer to past generation Intel and AMD parts. The company's proprietary LA664 "LoongArch" instruction set will be deployed on a chip design that accommodates 16 cores with simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) and 32 threads. In-house engineers think that the 3C6000 processor series is just as performant as Zen 3 and Tiger Lake (11th-gen Core) architectures, in terms of instructions per clock (IPC).

Loongson has reportedly deployed its Dragon Chain interconnect technology with the 3C6000 generation—the I/O interface is said to be much improved over current 3C5000-based server products. Company engineers have: "solved the bottleneck in the expansion of the number of processor cores. In the future, the company will also seal 32-core processors on the basis of 3C6000. 64-core products are possibly incoming later on." The MyDrivers article proposes that Loongson is targeting growing demand within China's server market, but LS3C6000 remains a "big project" that requires further compatibility and performance optimizations.