Why is your survey asking me for sensitive personal information, including about my finances?
Utterly inappropriate.
You are delusional if you think anyone is paying for a membership.
This won't help them in the face of a collapsing economy, stagnating population, and ever-more restricted access to first world markets in which to sell their technology products.
They won't have the resources to bootstrap themselves for much longer.
Their opportunity to eclipse the West has...
It's an truly worthy solution to become the next standard.
As for your comments on pricing, it hasn't been invented to save you money, though in any case the prices will be reasonable enough once volume ramps-up.
What nonsense.
Loongson is years away from producing anything to rival leading CPUs.
Tom's Hardware should be careful what it allows certain contributors to post - credibility, once lost, is difficult to regain.