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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.
You could always buy an Apple to avoid supporting a government with one of the worst human rights records today. Just a thought.
I also don't buy your argument that DRM cripples a CPU. DRM technologies are a valuable tool for developers. Just like other tools, they can be used for good things and for bad things, but DRM itself is not inherently bad.
To me your post looks like nothing more that buzzword whoring.
"The defense of freedom requires the advance of freedom" - George W Bush
Let me get this straight. You make a post asking for benchmarks, and it gets modded to a 3? Slashdot moderators are morons. I've resigned to the fact that I need to read every post because moderated posts have no meaning what so ever.