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China's 64bit Homegrown CPU
An anonymous reader writes: "EE Times is reporting on China's BLX IC Design Corp nearing the completion of their first 64-bit CPU. Based on the MIPS instruction set the 500-MHz Godson-2 microprocessor is aimed toward distributed grid computing. To avoid MIPS patent issues, several instructions (unaligned loads and storeds in the 32 bit version) have not been implemented but with the support of over 60 software providers such as Red Flag Linux and the ability to tweak compilers to not use these instructions this should not be a problem. The Godson-1 processor (also patent free) was announced last year and was aimed at the embedded market." The Godson processor line has generally been called Dragon by the Western press.
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Couldn't do any better than to choose the MIPS instruction set. I looked at it years ago and was impressed with its clean design.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
...our dragons have balls!
Just junk food for thought...
Taking an existing instruction set and removing stuff from it isn't exactly creative...
Copy pasted for you, my friend at Slashdot :D
BEIJING -- Stay tuned: China's first homegrown CPU is about to go 64-bit.
One of the country's most promising start-ups, BLX IC Design Corp., Ltd., told EE Times Wednesday (March 5) that it is closing in on a 500-MHz microprocessor that it will market toward China's leading server vendors, including Legend Group and Dawning Technology. It would eventually be positioned as the engine of a distributed grid computing network that will be used by public and private firms here.
The chip is dubbed Godson-2 and is the follow-on to a 32-bit, 266-MHz version released last year that is aimed at the embedded systems market. Both chips are largely based on the MIPS instruction set, but are not fully compatible because they avoid the use of key instructions that would run afoul of MIPS patents.
BLX has moved quickly to rally Chinese industry support around the architecture, launching an alliance that intends to attract 100 members and create 100 designs within two years. "We already have 60 companies and 15 designs so we are ahead of schedule," said David Shen, chief executive of BLX. "We have started working with Haier, which is the biggest consumer manufacturer in China, and they need a lot of chips."
All of the 60 companies that have joined are Chinese firms, Shen said, and they range from upstream hardware makers, to consumer giants like Haier, and software providers Red Flag Linux and Great Wall Software Co.
Godson-2, which has also been translated into English as Dragon or Longxin, has already been prototyped. Samples are expected to roll in the first half of next year. The chip will be binary backward compatible to the 32-bit Godson-1, a path of compatibility first chosen by Advanced Micro Devices in development of its Opteron line.
Some of the improvements over Godson-1 include a four-issue super-scaler architecture, dynamic branch prediction and a non-blocking cache design to allow for multiple misses in the memory array. The chip will probably be made on a 0.18-micron process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., although Shanghai's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. is also being considered.
Planning for Godson-3
Even though Godson-2 hasn't been officially rolled out, researchers at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), a government research group that first designed the Godson architecture before licensing it to BLX, are already thinking about a Godson-3. The core design will be similar. But more features should improve its standing.
"By the end of next year, we hope we can add in multiprocessor support and on-chip secondary cache. If these features are added, the power consumption may be around 10 watts," said Tang Zhimin, a senior ICT engineer who headed up the Godson project. The power budget for Godson-2 is around 5 watts, based on a 1.8V core and 3.3V I/O.
Also under consideration are SIMD for multimedia processing and multithreading support. "We are also looking at how to integrate multithreading with our current superscalar architecture," Tang said.
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
I wouldnt mind playing around with some of these. Also: how is availability here or in china for related hardware and motherboards?
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Hopefully the Chinese will leave DRM out of their chips and give people looking for a "free" CPU a competitive option to the crippled intel/AMD CPUs.
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64 bits? Maybe now someone will actually be able to calculate how much tea is meant when someone says "..all the tea in China".
Trolling is a art,
I think this shows 3 points
1) Free and easily ported OS allows them to have a reasonable non-standard processors.
2) US restrictions on exporting high powered chips and other computer parts are easily diluted by open standards.
3) Test, over time, in the market place the use of cheap open chips vs. more expensive perhaps more cutting edge chips (from the west). Do you use 1 or 2 AMD or Intel chips costing 700 USD or 5 or 6 Dragon/Godson 2 chips costing? $5 or $50 (etc).
Re #3, an engineer can tell you which is "best" but only the market can pick the real winner.
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If you're one a million, there's a thousand people just like you in China.
Even though massive portions of the Chinese population are poor farmers, the contingent that has adopted the Internet is (as a result of being a smaller portion of a larger population) far beyond their US counterparts.
The Internet allows for capitalism on global scale to be much easier. Up until now, the US has maintained the lead by appropriating the smartest people from other countries (H1-B's, etc.).
However, we're about to see the trailing edge of this trend, where the smart kids stay at home. Already, one of the top 4 software development groups is based in India.
To all you genius programmers: you're good. But are you good enough to outhack half a dozen Chinese guys working for half your salary?
I predict that within 10 years, half the US programming market will have gone to these overseas firms.
Anybody have any current data on this trend?
-Brett
According to the article it's only a 5W with an old 0.18um process.
Godson-3 with SMP support and on-die cache will use only 10W while Intel Itanium2 uses 130W.
I'll wait for the version without MSG!
Totally redundant. How about checking the domain before blind karma whoring ? I have never seen eetimes slashdotted, and there are lots of eetimes stories on Slashdot.
Don't forget the DSP chip announced Yesterday. This is really bad news for TI, as the chinese market for cell phones is growing much faster than US and almost saturated Europe.
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It would be interesting to see performance #'s on these things. They're "only" running at 500mhz, so how do they compare to other MIPS based cpu's? Basically, just how good is there engineering. It's nice for the Chinese to have a home grown cpu to use in their home grown machines, but so far it looks like a major yawn in relation to the overall cpu market.
People used to hate products like electronics that came out of Japan. They used to be considered cheap crappy imitations. Now Japan is one of the most respected countries producing electronics, if not the best.
So may China be next? China has a reputation for developing cheap goods and electronic equipment, but they seem to be getting better and better. Maybe someday soon they will be producing electronics as good, if not better, than any other country. The added benefit is that China doesn't follow all the same patent and copyright issues as other countries so they are truly free to innovate and compete. This coupled with Chinas new more positive view on Captitalism and China could become the new super power.
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China is starting to sound like an interesting place to be.
Err, aside from the whole "oppressive communist government" thing they've got going on over there, that is.
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64-bit, RISC, 1MB L2 Cache, and just as plump and juicy as when it was picked. Mmmm-hmm, that's good eatin'!!! :)
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Does anyone know if this, or another like it, will ever be available stateside with an ATX-mountable motherboard?
I wonder how well it actually performs
MHz is not everything I wonder how much of a performance penalty e.g. not having unaligned loads actually is and compared to a true MIPS core what the penalty
anyone got basic benchmarks ?
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Is the mirror there in case EE Times gets slashdotted? Like it has every other time they get linked to?
They use linux right...
How hard is it to create a new version of linux for a new CPU like this?
I am no kernel hacker but doesn't there have to be certain hooks for the CPU included for a port to be successful?
How do they get an OS (linux or whatever really) running on this thing?
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Does anyone have a link to the announcement in Chinese, or to the Chinese company's site? I'm especially curious to see how they got the name "Godson", since there's no simple Chinese translation for the word "god". If the Chinese term is tian1zi3, which is suspect it is, then it really means "Son of Heaven", another term for the emperor.
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I don't think that is anything to worry about. I mean, think about it.
Everyone in America is complaining about how US firms are employing foreign workings instead of US citizens. Once the foreign market starts to keep pace with / pass up the US, there will be an increased demand for IT workers in those countries. As demand for these workers increases, their salries will increase as well. This means US firms will be less eager to hire foreign workers.
Also, I think the US could use a good kick in the pants when it comes to motivation for product innovation. This may be just what we need.
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technically its cleaner has lots of software support (guess at linux and netbsd + ports )
and has a smaller die size I would guess
so in china they dont have a stupid......
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That implies that even the paying members are trolls.
me runs off and sends Taco his cash in order to increase my chances at first post!
I did post the story but the last sentence which was cut was very important.(Original).
"Although there are no patent issues MIPS have been known to be very aggressive toward people who try to create compatible systems."
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/202320 0&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=103
Hmmm......
Soon Intel and AMD will be like Ford and GM. With cheap labor, China can easily kill Intel and AMD. They just need time and money to do it.
Maybe the could just have used the extra space for a proper move instruction so R0 is freed.
The MIPS architecture already has a proper 'move' instruction without using r0: r12 = r8 | r8, or r12 = r8 | 0 (zero specified as immediate). The r0 is frozen at 0 so you can do negations (for which ARM uses 'rsb' or reverse subtraction) and other things where zero must be the first argument.
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Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
Very true. What we're seeing is a levelling (sp) of the playing field. North America and Europe are accustomed to producing 99% of hardware and software in the world (not a fact, for those kids about to flame, but you get my drift). What we're seeing is India and China and even Mexico and Brazil starting to get a little piece of the pie. Just as with all equilibriums, a balance will be attained.
then it really means "Son of Heaven", another term for the emperor.
Yet the West has "Emperor Linux" brand laptops.
Or possibly the translation of "Godson" is more idiomatic, along the lines of "a boy I named" which is an important concept for example in Canela culture.
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To avoid MIPS patent issues, several instructions ...
Since when do the commies give a flying about patents and other such things? And I don't suspect any of their clients would either. So why waste your time on making it patent-free?
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I'm putting it between the soy milk and the mango lassi.
now we FINALLY know what the next PowerMac will run on. :)
Just raise the taxes on crack.
that Asians can't come up with anything new. They just steal the West's ideas!
Microsoft what?
"...The chip is dubbed Godson-2 and is the follow-on to a 32-bit, 266-MHz version released last year that is aimed at the embedded systems market.
...snip...
Godson-2, which has also been translated into English as Dragon or Longxin, has already been prototyped. "
uh... since when is "Longxin" English? no entry in the Dictionary
China is much bigger than the US.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Actually, SPARC would have been a far better option, since it's a 100% open spec paltform. The license cost just $99!!! Amazing..
umm.... 5 dollars a cpu = HUGE multistacks of little mobos... I said this the first time the dragon was on slashdot.
Please say "Blah Blah, It isn't cost efficient." If you can run a 500mhz Dragon for 5 watts, and an Itanium for 130, why not run 26x500mhz Dragons? or kick it up a notch for 32x500mhz.
Also, if you need something real to look at and you can't understand why this is a good idea, have a look at a PC104 board.
Now Since I've discussed this in the desktop/server cluster end of the spectrum, imagine how this will help portable/wearable/embedded device technology, if their Desktop CPU is planned to run at 5 watts, imagine their portable CPU.
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I think it will be fast because they're going to build it with silicon from the moon.
Since there is 1/6 gravity on the moon, light can move faster so the chip will be 6x faster than anything us Earth suckers can make.
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From the sound of it, the Godson chips will be lower powered in terms of performance to current US chips. However, I find the energy consumption to be very attractive. Ie, 5 watts and 10 watts for 266Mhz 500 Mhz respectively. Scaling up linearly, that's still just 20 watts of power consumption for a 2Ghz chip.
But what I'm thinking is that China is aiming for is low cost and low power consumption chips. Ie, can be used in portable hardware and/or massively parallel setups.
Granted, they can't SMP the chips in hardware, but with a Linux cluster of these, they could quite readily setup a powerful computing cluster.
Personally, I'm glad that they are designing their own chips. It would be nice to see more competition outside of just the big two.
The way I see it, if they produce these chips at low prices($15-$50), at such low power consumption levels, I could easily see myself building many small nodes of them. Maybe now, I can POVray just ever so faster... :)
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GODSON-2, now 50%* faster at performing miracles than our original GODSON-1 (Jesus) line without the overheating issues associated with the FIRSTANGEL (Lucifer) series.
Note: 50% speed improvement is valid. PhilosopherMark2003 does not take in to account issues that need to be addressed in the new millenium and therefore produces unbalanced results in favor of BhuddaTechnologies's processor line.
From the article:
"The chip will be binary backward compatible to the 32-bit Godson-1, a path of compatibility first chosen by Advanced Micro Devices in development of its Opteron line."
What a load of horse. Sun did this ~10 yrs ago with the SPARC -> UltraSPARC transition, the PowerPC and POWER specs also include such compatibility, and if I'm not mistaken MIPS themselves did this as well also ~10 yrs ago. Some reporter there really doesn't know his stuff.
It's a step.
Anyway, i'm willing to bet it was more productive and creative than whatever you did last weekend.
(Or me, for that matter. I spent last weekend playing "The Ocinara Of Time".)
What is "a deltic"?
Just say 40h bit. Please.
I'm impressed. Given their track record on software, their decision to obey MIPS patents pleasantly surprises me... unless their goal is to sell these Godsons in the US without a 5.5x10^9% tariff.
one thing that may definetely be considered a good point about China doing it's own hardware:
:)
no DRM (oops! "trusted content management" or whatever new name it was given...) is obviously to take place in their stuff, is it?
maybe this is the anwser for knocking-down those greedy majors interests in making computers to evolve to protect their own private interests?
go China! i'm ready to get my RedPC already!
Its alway funny to see someone from the US claim something as american. Even more so in Electronics and Computers.
Intel and AMD are Global , they have more employee outside of america then in america
And even more so Oustide of the US. And I dont mean in manufacturing plant only.
Globalization is affecting everyone but even more the US as no one do business there when its cheaper/better everywhere else.
It's exponential: frequency^2, iirc.
Time for the gratuitous comment concering Godson Beowolf clusters....
NO, I'm not going to do it!
but 15 minutes later you're hungry for an unaligned load.
Given the fact that so much high tech research and development was made possible through copious use of acronyms, and that acronyms require an alphabet and not idiograms, I applaud China's accomplishment! :-)
I thought the original dragon processors released were only about as powerfull as a 486?
Yep. You're a karma whore all right.
FYI 500Mhz/64bit/1mb cache is fairly close to the top end of what you can buy from everyone's favorite MIPS-based vendor, SGI. I think the top end from SGI is an R14000(A?) at 700Mhz with (1?2?)Mb of cache. [Yeah, you can tell I keep real on top of the cpus in machines that cost more than my annual salary in most cases. ;)] c.f. the Fuel line of workstations.
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Heck, if it works like all the other "Made in China" electronics I've owned over the years, AMD and Intel have no worries whatsoever.
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How much software engineering work do you think there is out there? You're assuming there's an unlimited amount... In fact, it's limited to some percentage of the global GDP. Maybe that percentage can go up as countries industrialize, it won't go up at the rate that jobs are shifting. That means US salaries go down to keep pace with foriegn competition, and before long I'm making less than an elementary school teacher. Maybe that's the way it ought to be, but I went into this field thinking it would be somewhat lucrative.
While the CPU may not implement Digital Rights Management, I have a BIG worry there may be backdoors in the CPU architecture that might allow the Chinese government to monitor Internet usage by end users with the appropriate monitoring program.
Far fetched? Given China's aversion to foreign web sites and the fact China is still an authoritarian government this very idea is not out of the question.
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Am I the only one who gets a laugh out of what the west calls this processor? It's made in Communist China... Communism = bad... USSR... Red Dragon... ahhh forget it.
At work, I rely on Slashdot, K5, and a couple other sites that are slip through.
I for one value a simple copy/paste. Whether the server can take it, who cares. AFAIC, Slashdot should provide at least the article's texts. Just think how many RTFA posts could be avoided!
The problem with a kick in the ass is that the US has such a big ass it sometimes doesn't notice it got kicked. If it does, it might lose its head up its own ass looking for the problem. Think back to when Japanese car companies started to sell good cars. The US auto industry lagged way behind and still seems like its trying to keep up.
where can i get one outside china?
Korea is farther along a path similar to Japan's than China is. The transition from making cheap knockoffs to making quality products happens over time, as money from selling the cheap stuff gradually raises the standard of living and the salaries of the people designing and building the stuff.
Korea is just now at the point (there was a big Newsweek article about Samsung that I can't find on the web) where companies like Samsung are openly changing strategy from "undercutting price" to "winning sales on quality and features".
China is undergoing a similar transition, but is not as far along. Chinese electronics are finally starting to appear on shelves, but Apex TVs and the like are still definitely the low-end of things, and are selling on price (or DRM-unfriendly quasi-legal features). When their labor costs become too high to sell on price alone anymore, they too will make a strategy switch like the Japanese did.
I wonder if they consider designing a SPARC compatible CPU. I thought SPARC was an "open standard", but the SPARC site does mention that there are some licensing costs. How much would those cost?
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I think he means he's a locomotive. ?
Maybe it's some sort of weird dyslexic Buddist koan.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
It's more likely they hire offshore workers because they can't vote in the US.
Everyone knows Microsoft donated $400M to India but didn't hear them publicly say, "pick something to move offshore today... quality work at 50% to 60% of the cost. That's two heads for the price of one."
Hopefully someday we'll figure out how to provide food, shelter, and some spending money to everyone for an honest day's work instead of stepping on people on the way to the top.
Dean G.
Do you count Taiwan as "other country"?
On the other hand, the PRChina embassy in Belgrade was "collateral damage" of the Kosovo war.
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The data bus?
Address bus?
Largest general register?
It would be bad though if the laid off foreign Engineering teams start their own firms and outsource to some Himilayan village that has a bicycle powered net connection.
I read somewhere that if we averaged the world's food production among the world's population it would equal about a hamburger a day. Can anyone prove or disprove this?
Is the "Dragon" processor big-endian or little-endian? (How else can I judge it unless I know if China is on my side in the endian holy war? ;)
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
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Since the rural people might have to power these by "BICYCLE POWER" generators, the low power consumption might be a good thing.
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This chip might be an interesting move. We have seen leap frogs in technology adoption in developing countries.
Examples:
1. US homes are still mostly connected via copper phone lines. Developing countries which are barely starting to lay out their communications network infrastructure are laying out fiber optic lines. Whether this is good or not is still yet to be seen. Fabric switches are still incredibly expensive.
2. Cell phone technologies in Japan, Korea, and other asian countries are connected via newer and more advanced 3G CDMA digital technology. For some countries, its much cheaper to build a wireless infrastructure than it is to lay out ground cables. China is pushing their own CDMA technology.
So, with this new 64-bit CPU, maybe China will make the leapfrog into 64-bit computing. They will have a Linux system capabable of handling a 64-bit instruction set. Assuming of course, that Microsoft doesn't shutter some kind of shady deal with the Chinese government, to have them all running their servers on Windows 2000/.Net operating systems. The company making the chip will have to speed up the CPU though, but maybe they can follow Moore's Law and double every 18 months.
Who knows, maybe this will cause a revolution in China. The population will be running their systems on a more advanced 64-bit Linux system running MIPS-like instruction set. Then again.. maybe not? The market will decide.
In Japanese society/business culture, most firms have functioned in an extremely co-operative, communial sense, to create the best product possible. A CEO of a company feels so indebted to his workers that he may commit suicide if he has to fire them.
In China, a business man and worker feels no ethical conerns towards anything except protecting himself and his family. The mentality is, if you can see an oppitunity, you're a fool to not take it, no matter what the consequences for others may be. Urban China is all dog-eat-dog, ethic-less, harsh, self-centred, and is not going to produce high-quality products any time soon because the business men are all out to rip each other off.
Between India and China there will be around a 1/4 of the world's people. Thier governments won't be hamstrung by US media inspired laws that lock up content, takes away people right to fair use and most importantly put $$ into the pockets of American companies.
Do you really think that a paltry USD$400m "donation" by BillG to India will convince a *billion* people to use Windows - no way !
Do you really think that China will put Palladium h/w controls into their PC's ?? , or DRM limitations into hardrives ?? No way !
My prediction is that within 10 years, if you want to use a computing platform that is truly free (as in speech, not beer) , then you may well be using a Chinese made PC running RedFlag Linux (English edition)
Of course you may have trouble importing these non-DCMA v2 "anti-circumenvention devices" into your Western country , certainly the US, where congress have sold out to big-media , and sadly probably into Australia as well shortly (US and Oz are currently in free trade negotiations and the US want to talk about equitable IP laws..) ;-(
We should all be thankful that the national strategic interests of India and China will happily coincide with the asprirations and ideal of all those who identify with the aims and ideals of the EFF
Like Lessig said at OSCON 2002 , what have YOU done about it ?? - Donate to the EFF !!
Err, how can you tell? A 200MHz R5K is not the same as a 200MHz R10K which is not the same as a 200MHz R12K.
Furthermore, there are "crippled" MIPS processors in many embedded devices. How would a 133MHz processor out of an EM-500 compare to this?
Without more details this is a wank discussion.
And then offcourse one can still record the analog output of the tv, monitor or speakers but for many applications it'd be really usefull, however.
Aside: how hard would it be to write a DSP algorithm which takes the output of a camera pointed at a TV screen/monitor and cleans it up (removing glare and distortion and correcting colours)? How much information would still be lost in the best case? (I doubt any watermarks would survive it, unless they were based on doing something weird with the raster beam, in which case CRTs would need to be redesigned.) Would it be feasible for such a scheme to exist and automatically and effortlessly bypass end-to-end copy-denial techniques with tolerable loss of quality?
they are just using a bunch of risc chips to back up the main player which is some sort of vliw chip. for instance the vliw instruction may be muldiv the next 30 dwords, the implementation will be able to tap into the array of risc chips to execute the instruction. this would ultimately scale for any high loads of parellel processing, but its not going to be any badboy ALU/FPU or compete with any desktop cpus from amd or intel
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I seemed to have lost the ability to moderate, yet I consistantly Meta-moderate fairly, and try to Moderate fairly as well.
Weird.
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Based on the traditional chinese culture, it is considered to be easier to bring up a little baby, when it is tittle, that parents give there child a "Ugly" nickname. So ,in Chinese, 'Gou Sheng'(means a kid is brought up by puppy's leftover) is normally used, especially in countryside, which pronunciation in chinese(just like the pronunciation of Goshen ) is just like Godson, which meaning is so good in English.
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In China, it is normally called as Long Xin, which didn't mean Dragon Hear. As some of you guys know, Long in Chinese means Dragon and Xin means heart. But there is another meanings of Long and Xin, Long reffers to All Chinese People and Xin means chip. So longxin means Chinese Chip!
If you guys want to know the story of developing the chip and if you understand Chinese , you can navigate to the following URLs£
http://www.pconline.com.cn/news/hotpick/hy/1021
http://www.csdn.net/Develop/article/15%5C15461.
Based on the traditional chinese culture, it is considered to be easier to bring up a little baby, when it is tittle, that parents give there child a "Ugly" nickname. So ,in Chinese, 'Gou Sheng'(means a kid is brought up by puppy's leftover) is normally used, especially in countryside, which pronunciation in chinese(just like the pronunciation of Goshen ) is just like Godson, which meaning is so good in English.
In China, it is normally called as Long Xin, which didn't mean Dragon Hear. As some of you guys know, Long in Chinese means Dragon and Xin means heart. But there is another meanings of Long and Xin, Long reffers to All Chinese People and Xin means chip. So longxin means Chinese Chip!
If you guys want to know the story of developing the chip and if you understand Chinese , you can navigate to the following URLs£
http://www.pconline.com.cn/news/hotpick/hy/10210/9 7594.html
http://www.csdn.net/Develop/article/15%5C15461.sht m
loong = dragon
Talking about performance... I wonder whether we will see another AMD PR number style rating scheme....
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Am I the only one finding it interesting that they are planning on manufacturing it in Taiwan?
:)
Is economy starting to outweigh politics even in China?
eetu.
How do you do direct addressing? r0 + immediate offset.
Only useful on a few limited embedded systems. The immediate offset has a range of only +/- 32 KB. An offset like this from zero would reach only the first and last 32 KB of memory, and on virtual-memory systems I've seen, the first and last 32 KB is usually paged out to catch null-pointer dereference bugs. When I took a class on MIPS assembly language for my CS degree, most direct addressing on MIPS was done with 'lui' (load upper 16 bits immediate) followed by a load.
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Its one thing to design something, and another to manufacture it efficiently. China has introduced other state-of-the-art machines before, such as the Cray knockoff called Galaxy, but at an economic cost around a hundred times the labor to construct and run compared to a Cray. Low production computers dont cut it economically.
The character "Sheng" has another meaning: penis.
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The CPU is the core of the computer. So the chip is called "xin1" which means heart in Chinese. "Long2" is the dragon ,the symbole in China, in Chinese. "Godson" is meaningless translation. I think the CPU should be called "Dragon's Heart". "Dragon's Heart" tells all the people in the world that Chinese want to get their own CPU.