Chip designers link up on drives

Loongson Technology, Hunan Goke establish strategic partnership

Two leading Chinese chip designers joined forces on Monday to boost the homegrown semiconductor industry's competence in controllers for solid state drives, a crucial component of data storage devices.

Loongson Technology Corp and Hunan Goke Microelectronics Co Ltd said in Beijing that they had established a strategic partnership. The two sides jointly unveiled the GK 2302 controller series, which are designed with the intellectual properties of Loongson, China's first self-developed general-purpose microprocessor.