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.
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.
The reference hardware specifications as of 28 October 2006 are: The Fuloong 2F computer[12] was released on 30 June 2008, priced at CN¥1,800, about €163, $257.
In part to its ability to run only libre software, without proprietary binary blobs, Richard Stallman famously used the Lemote Yeeloong.