China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU

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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IN SOVIET RUSIA

[cybercomm]

(remember the Yugo?)

Dude you really need to get your geography right! We are insulted that you think the great people's Russian workers union and slavedrivers guild would buy such a substandard car like Yugo. Yugo was made in Former republic of Yugoslavia, (now Serbia) and from what i heard it is a fairly resillient car (some guys have had it for over 30 years and other than some rust and a whole boatload of spare parts it is apparently still ticking :) ) Next time if you wanna go witht "IN SOVIET RUSSIA"[SIC.] Use OUR "national brand" Lada. :) (which apparently came with it's toolkit (since breakdowns were so common).

Re:Dragon.

[Gyan]

Choice of name ? It's my real first name.

Re:In Soviet America

[Blaskowicz]

oops. forgot to login. I'm not an AC :-(

Re:in Soviet Russia

[meshko]

I think that if the waves story is true, this might have been a government thing. When 386 came out CIA (or whatever) was probably still conserned about Soviets not being able to build chips. I can easily see government asking Intel polietly to change their manufacturing process a bit to confuse us.