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Chinese "Dragon" Chip On Sale

Posted by timothy on from the center-of-the-world dept.

mrseigen writes "The processor that Chinese firms have been working on as a response to foreign equipment and software is now available for pre-order. The Inquirer did an article here, and the company website is here. The chip will supposedly ship with Midori Linux."

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  1. Midori -- Stale Distro? by jalexand · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why would they ship with a linux distro that hasn't been updated in two years?

    1. Re:Midori -- Stale Distro? by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 4, Interesting
      they are using the Midori distro because of the support for written Chinese (not specific on the dialect)

      When dealing with the Chinese written language, dialect is more or less irrelevant. The only issue is whether to support 'traditional' or 'simplified' Chinese characters. In mainland China, simplified characters (introduced when the communists took control) is usually desired. In Taiwan and elsewhere, traditional characters are usually employed. When using Unicode, this is almost entirely a font issue. When using older doublebyte character sets, the appropriate encoding system must be supported. I am not absolutely certain, but I think Midori supports everything commonly used.

  2. China is enormous by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And will be an enormous economic force in years to come.

    If they reduce their reliance on foreign IP (or non-free foreign IP) as well as foreign hardware, this can only be good for China, and only be bad for us (Less money flow into the IT industry) unless they produce a higher quality product (thus improving the industry).

    However, in the short term, you know, MS won't make as much money, neither will Intel, and I'm sure a lot of /.ers are really happy about that.

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  3. My random observation by Bryan+Ischo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I spent a good deal of time in China a couple of years back. All I have to say is, the many people whom I met all over the country were honest and worked very hard, and I think that they deserve better living conditions than they currently have.

    Their government is slowly but surely making progress towards a more reasonable form, and I hope that news technology developments like this are harbingers of improvement in their economy and the lives of the Chinese people in general.

  4. Re:Sure i'll buy one by jcr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, and Hitler built the Autobahn. So what?

    All of the statements above are true, but it is also true that the oligarchal theocracy of the Dalai Llama never had anyone killed for trying to leave the country.

    Also, you omitted the overriding reason for the invasion of Tibet: Mao needed to divert the attention of his subjects from his incompetence in agricultural policy, which was killing millions of chinese through starvation.

    Far better to gloat about how the Tibetans were "liberated" (and gloss over the fact that the subjects of the Mao Dynasty were just as much enslaved as the Tibetans had ever been), than to let people talk about how many villages had been wiped out by the PLA for having the affrontery to try to keep enough of their harvest to stay alive for another year.

    Mao was a very lucky thug. He was not a Great Man,but just a long-winded cuthroat at the right place and the right time to beat Stalin's record.

    You left-wing whiners sure like to cut history's greatest mass-murderer a lot of slack, don't you?

    -jcr

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  5. Re:Dragons /.'d Already by EinarH · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The last time this was up on slashdot someone mentioned performance equivalent to a Intel P2 450 MHz. Since this is a RISC CPU it will of course be stronger in diffrent areas but that is another discussion.

    But the real kicker with this CPU is the possibility for cheap dual and quad motherboards. If you can get 4 of these running under Linux or NetBSD the performance of one CPU don't mather that much. With a cost per CPU probably between $20-30* I would be all over tis offer.
    From a customers wiewpoint competition in the Quad-motherboard is appreciated as these MB's today cost insane amounts of money.

    All this depends on wheter they have added propper SMP support which is propably difficalt as they try to stay away of "IP" issues.

    *Wild guess of course, but they just can't cost above $30 if they expect them to sell in China.

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