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China Develops Their Own CPU: The "Dragon Chip"
vaxzilla writes "China's People's Daily
Online is reporting in
this article that the Computer Institution of the Chinese Academy of
Science have developed a new CPU, which they're calling the Dragon Chip.
The report isn't clear on the technical details of the chip, though it
does state, somewhat confusingly, that it, `is based on the RISC
structure, a totally another standard. Therefore, it will not fall into
the intellectual property right trap.' They're running Linux on the chip
and have built a server around it, Soaring Dragon. It looks like China is
starting to tell both Microsoft and Intel to take a hike. Interesting
times are ahead."
Hmmm....
If the hardware design habits of the Chinese are anything like their software programming efforts, then the Dragon will be reverse-engineered and rebranded Pentium.
They probably didn't even have to reverse engineer it, just give a spy an assignment codenamed "INTEL HACKED BY CHINESE"
...
...it will be pretty ironic, considering RMS himself is a communist, and the people taking his software license and ripping it to shreds whilst he watches and can't do a damn thing about it -- are communists of the true kind.
Sweet sweet revenge.
According to the estimation of the Ministry of Information Industry the semi-conductor market in China's mainland will witness an annual growth rate of 35 percent before 2005 to reach a scale of 40 billion US dollars with the chips needed to amount to 17 billion pieces. By the year of 2010 China is going to turn out the second large semi-conductor market in the world.
Of course, the Ministry of Information Industr had a gun to their head when they made this statement.
They are also quoted as saying "Arr your crip berong us", which, when translated, means: "All your chip are belong us"
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There are over a dozen companies in the U.S. that develop their own CPU's all the time (in the form of Microcontrollers). For example, TI, Motorola, Microchip, MIPS and many others. It's not just Intel, AMD, and VIA that know how to make CPU's.
There is no way that this chip is completly original anyway. All the know-how on developing it probably came from the U.S. or Europe. All you would need is a few textbooks, datasheets, and a few good engineers for development. With enough time/money any company or government could develop their own CPU.
Yup. Nigger Stew.
Who modded this dipshit up? He apparently enjoys having planes run into large buildings
absolutely correct! LINUX == COMMUNISM! people should stop fooling themselves into thinking open source is a good thing for everybody. how about supporting a free market where people are actually paid for doing good work? if you unemployed no-talent ass-clown hippies would stop hanging on the coattails of the few members who actually contribute to open source and go GET REAL JOBS in the computer industry, youd support intellectual property rights instead of this "free ideas" bullshit.