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China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU

Posted by timothy on from the not-mythical dept.

Dynamic Drive writes "There's an interesting article on Cnet regarding China's eager attempts to lessen her dependence on foreign technology when it comes to CPUs. The latest endeavor is a homegrown chip named 'Dragon', which apparently is roughly equivalent in speeds to those of Intel chips made between 1995-1997, or 200-260MHz. While I think such an audacious effort is most certainly commendable, I can't help but wonder what the potential things that could go wrong with designing a CPU are, such as software incompatibilities etc." This is the same processor mentioned in September, only now more than 10,000 of the chips have been made.

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  1. "Dragon" - named after the speed. by Ann+O'Nymous-Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    How fast is it?

    It's Dragon.

  2. Just imagine. by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Funny
    You would acutally need a Beowulf cluster of these.

    Ok, ok, it's just a lame joke about a lame processor. Move along.

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  3. Feng Shui by CySurflex · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the spirit of Feng Shui, these chips will always be situated across from the heat sink, have a picture of a fish somewhere on them, and will never do division operations on Tuesdays.

  4. I used CPUInfo on one of those recently... by vudufixit · · Score: 5, Funny

    The result that came back was interesting - instead of a rating in MHZ and the serial number, I saw, "Help, I'm trapped in a Chinese CPU Factory"

  5. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You do not make enlighted posts under the "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" moniker (or any of its variants)!

  6. VIA should sell China their processor! by Newer+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would insure that China be f**krd up for the next 30 years...