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China Releases 2nd generation MIPS Chip
eldawg writes writes with news of the launch of a second-generation Chinese 64-bit MIPS CPU. "The Godson-2 or 'Dragon' went into production last week. News reports indicate that, 'The CPU is 95% MIPS compatible using an unauthorized and unlicensed variation of the MIPS architecture, which is owned by the American company MIPS Technologies...The Godson-2 is pretty much a copy of the MIPS R10000 which makes it on par with 1995 technology.' The Chinese plan on using these chips in consumer electronics for the local market, but one can assume that they will eventually end up in exported electronic goods. I wonder if MIPS Technology will sit idly by when this happens?"
When I clicked on this story... it said:
"Nothing to see for you here. Move along."
Exactly what the Chinese textbooks will say about this. "IN the year 2005 China invented a brand new COMPUTER CHIP technology. American spies stole the designs for this chip and also the TOP SECRET designs for a time machine device, and went back to 1995 to create a company called MIPS."
The article said and I quote "The move still shows that China is capable of designing complex microprocessors." and "The Godson-2 is pretty much a copy of the MIPS R10000 which makes it on par with 1995 technology."
I didn't know design is just copying someone's IP.
and by hands you mean cocks.
If you just took anything I said seriously, read it again.
china is a screwed country. they can not escape their own problems, to become a first world nation. at best, china will always be reliant on other nations.
what do you believe is the #1 bargining chip the USA has with china? the massive military power the usa possesses? no. the massive wealth the usa possesses? no. the anwser is food exports.
china can not feed their own people. they are in the same position north korea is in. if the usa cut off food exports to china tomorrow, in one year there would be an epidemic that would make china look like ethiopia.
china is trying to fix their malady with a government issued order- only one child per family. the problem then becomes that many families will kill their first child if it is a girl, because boys are more usefull to a family and greater income earners.
china also refused to invest in r&d like other first world nations. instead, china will use industrial espionage to steal plans/ideas, and reverse engineer products, then replicate those products using cheap parts.
now if i was emporor of china, there are a few things i would do to fix their country. #1) take back tiwan as an export epicenter for all of asia. force the usa to fight or go home. end the stand off for once and for all. it costs too much to bluff, year after year. china could learn something from the pissing contest the USSR had with the usa. money that could have been used elsewhere was spent on the military. the usa does not have the forces to deal with china right now, not with iraq and afghanastan, and all the other hell holes on the globe that bush wants to clean. hell, if china got into it with the usa, i am pretty damn sure north korea would see an oppertunity to take back south korea. #2) china must be able to feed their own people. that requires innovation. one way to make sure they are able to feed all their own people is to have a massive war that takes 25% of their population. see #1 for how to accomplish this. if they fight the usa, there will be massive casulties. if they don't fight the usa and take tiwan, they will have more land to grow food, and to shuffle people to and from. #3) create the asian equivelant of the european union. find other countries to form a trading block, where anyone from one country can work in another, they all trade as one voice, they all set policy together. perhaps if chinese factories open their door to vietnamese workers, then vietnam will open their rice fields to china.
the other problem china faces is japan. these two nations hate each other more than the french despise british food. japan has always attempted to invade china. china needs a policy with regard to japan. but japan is in the pocket of the usa.
there is an ancient chinese proverb- "may you live in interesting times". i had a thought, imagine if china and cuba became buddy buddies. cuba sure could use all the electronics that china produces. and china could park a couple nukes in cuba facing at the usa. now those would be interesting times.
so, what is the anwser for china? they will be one of two things. they will either break away from the sphere of usa influance in their region. or china will be relegated to a cheap sweatshop for knock-off goods. china can't be like india, and try and have more per capita engineers than anyone, and lure buisness to their nation. china can't be like japan and export, export, export. china is china. their problems are their own.
btw, does anyone know what kind of air force china has?
in some ways, the problems china faces are the same problems the usa will face in another generation or two. as the usa continues to grow, there is only so much food the land can produce, and as people are forced to live closer and closer together, crime will go up, companies will look at people like animals fit only for work or death.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Infect someone on their vacation in Beijing. The entire country dies within a year. So does a large segment of California and Lower Manhattan, but the evil racist overlords who own America will consider it a small price to pay for GLOBAL DOMINATION!
They will figure: "we have to do it to them before they do it to us and empty North America, Australia, and Europe."
Sometimes I hate the world and everyone in it.
Sometimes I don't.
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