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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. Stunned about this... by Hadean · · Score: 2, Troll

    Well, I -am- actually amazed at the progression of China's CPU, but I'm even more stunned that Slashdot checked to see if this was already posted...

    Here's an October story from the People's Daily (and another from September) to see how they see it...

  2. IP ownership conflicts? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's certainly commendable that China goes about building its own chips for security reasons, but one has to wonder about the IP upon which they are basing the chip.

    If it is x86 compatible and they are not paying to license the x86 instruction set, then the Chinese are in violation of Intel's IP rights. Now, they could probably get away with selling them as unmarked chips that just happen to be compatible with Pentiums.

    This kind of IP thievery has always been a hallmark of east Asian technology. At least the Japanese improved on the tech they took. The Chinese can't seem to even beat an 8 year old tech.

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  3. Re:Feng Shui by geek · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's Japanese, I don't care what Everything2 says. It's wrong. It's base is in Japanese Buddhism and has been for over a thousand years. If the cantonese picked it up, great, but Feng Shui is Japanese.

  4. Kinda like Apple... by bryan1945 · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...but since this is China, well hell, we gotta get pissed that they may might make something better then the standard Linux crap.

    Just like Apple kinda flew by all the "I like to shit in this kinda color scheme"

    Shit... I have to go... she's sucking my dick... oh shit!!!!!! Tak lter...
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  5. The main trouble with Chinese computers... by Slur · · Score: 2, Troll

    Its really hard to type with those little sticks.

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