Lemote

Jiangsu Lemote Tech Co., Ltd

Type	Private
Industry	Integrated circuit design, computer hardware, computer software
Founded	June 2006; 18 years ago (2006-06)
Headquarters	Changshu (Suzhou), Jiangsu, China [1]
Products	MIPS64 Loongson based motherboards, personal computers

Jiangsu Lemote Tech Co., Ltd or Lemote (Chinese: 航天龙梦; pinyin: hang tian lóng mèng; literally: 'Aerospace Dragon Dream') is a computer company established as a joint venture between the Jiangsu Menglan Group and the China Institute of Computing Technology,^[2] involved in computer hardware and software products, services, and projects.

History

In June 2006, shortly after Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed Loongson 2E they need a company to build end product, so the Jiangsu Menglan Group began a joint venture with the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The venture was named Jiangsu Lemote Tech Co., Ltd.

A computer was announced by Fuxin Zhang, an ICT researcher also a Lemote staff, who said the purpose of this project was to "provide everyone with a personal computer".^[3] The device is intended for low income groups and rural area students.

Hardware

Lemote builds small form factor computers including network computers and netbooks with Loongson Processors.

Netbook computers

Lemote Yeeloong 8101B

The Yeeloong netbook computer is intended to be built on free software^[4] from the BIOS upwards, and for this reason is used and recommended by the founder of Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman as of September 2008^[5] and 23 January 2010.^[6][7]

The specifications are:

Loongson 3A laptop

Loongson insiders^[8] revealed a new model based on the Loongson 3A quad-core laptop has been developed and was expected to launch in August 2011. With a similar design to the MacBook Pro^[9] from Apple Inc., it will carry a Linux operating system by default.^[10]

In September 2011, Lemote announced the Yeeloong-8133 13.3" laptop featuring 900 MHz, quad-core Loongson-3A/2GQ CPU.^[11]

Desktop computers

• Lynloong, all-in-one desktop computer, combined computer and monitor, without keyboard.
• Myloong, desktop diskless network computer (NC), without monitor or keyboard.
• Fuloong, see below.

Products in development

Hiloong, SOHO and family storage center.^{[citation needed][clarification needed]}

Fuloong 2 series of small desktop computers

The Fuloong 2 series is a desktop computer that costs CN¥1,015, €100, US$131.^{[citation needed]} It ships with two Linux distributions, Debian and Rays Linux, but any other distribution that has a mipsel port can be installed, e.g. Gentoo Linux.

Fuloong 2E

Lemote Fuloong 2E

Lemote Fuloong 2E
Manufacturer	Menglan Group
Type	Personal computer
Media	40–60 GB IDE hard disk
Operating system	Linux (Xinhua, Sunwah/RAYS, or Debian)
CPU	Loongson III 64-bit CPU
Memory	256 MiB DDR SDRAM
Input	Keyboard
Connectivity	10/100 Mb/s Ethernet
Dimensions	181 mm (7.1 in) H 145 mm (5.7 in) W 37 mm (1.5 in) D

The reference hardware specifications as of 28 October 2006 are:

• Dimensions: 18.8 × 14.5 cm
• CPU: Loongson 2E 64-bit, integrated DDR controller, 64 KiB cache level
• Clock speed: 667 MHz
• Southbridge: VIA VT82C686B
• DDR SDRAM: 256 MiB
• Hard disk: IDE 40–60 GB
• Video card: ATI Radeon 7000M (RV100) 16MB PCI
• Network controller: Realtek 8139D, 10/100 Mbit/s
• USB ports: 4
• Power supply: external 12V 4A DC

Fuloong 2F

The Fuloong 2F computer^[12] was released on 30 June 2008, priced at CN¥1,800, about €163, $257.

The specifications are:

• Dimensions: 19 × 14.5 × 3.7 cm
• CPU: Loongson 2F, integrated DDR2 controller
• Clock speed: 1 GHz
• Southbridge: AMD CS5536
• DDR2 SDRAM: 512MB
• Hard disk: IDE 120 GB
• Video card: XGA V2, 32MB video RAM, with VGA, DVI and S-video ports
• Network controller: Ethernet, Realtek RTL 8110SC, 1000Mbit/s
• USB ports: 2.0, 4
• Infrared receiver
• Power supply: external 12 V power adapter
• Operating system: Xinhua Hualay Rays 2.0, which is a Linux distribution that supports MIPS architecture. Fuloong 2F also works well with other Linux distributions,^[12] OpenBSD,^[13] and NetBSD.^[14]

Fuloong Mini-PC

The specifications are:

Software

Lemote has participated in development and MIPS-porting of Debian GNU/Linux, eCos, MicroC/OS-II, VxWorks, Microsoft Windows CE, Java, OpenOffice.org and Yongzhong Office by Wuxi Yongzhong Tech Co. It also develops a Loongson processor simulator based on GXemul. In part to its ability to run only libre software, without proprietary binary blobs, Richard Stallman famously used the Lemote Yeeloong.^[7]

See also

• OLPC XO-1, also called the $100 Laptop project
• Classmate PC, a low cost machine developed by Intel
• Sinomanic Tianhua GX-1C, part of a line of affordable machines developed by Sinomanic in China
• Simputer, an earlier project to construct cheap handheld computers in India
• VIA pc-1 Initiative, a project of VIA Technologies to help bridge the digital divide

References

External links

• (in Chinese, defunct as of January 2019)
• (in zh) Institute of Computing Technology, China, http://www.ict.ac.cn/ .

News articles (by date)

• "China to produce low-cost computers of its own", Xinhua, 3 March 2006, http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/14/content_4304048.htm, retrieved 6 March 2007 .
• "The Lemote Box", Virtual China, 7 January 2007, http://www.virtual-china.org/2007/01/lemote_loongson.html .

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