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."

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Re:The Big Picture

[God! Awful]

Face it, most Linux users are not those free thinkers who carefully weigh the pros and cons of a tool they use to get a job done based on what philosophies it represents.

I use Linux only because it is free (as in beer) and because I am a cheap bastard who doesn't care that I am supporting what I perceive as communism (actually I'm not really supporting it since I haven't contributed any work or money and don't plan to). I object to your implication that the average consumer is not a free thinker just because they don't base their purchasing/leetching decision on some fad socio-economic theory.

I suppose this will get modded down, but that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

-a