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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?"
...will just buy out MIPS Technology, just like they are with everything else.
From the article:
... A bit more complex then the Hennasy and Patterson (The Classic!) book on computer arch and cpu design, but not by much. Given what (admittedly little) the article said about China's CPU fabs, I wonder if the newest Xilinx or Altera FPGA's could implement the design and run it faster ..
"The move still shows that China is capable of designing complex microprocessors."
As is any junior level class in computer engineering
I always prefer to start the year off with a bang - or, to be more precise, a series of loud hums, a crackle or two, and
The chinese have probably bet that with the rate that technology is now progressing and the slowness that the WTO/courts operate it will take a couple of years to get any decision against them. By that time they will have already made their money. This will get really interesting in a while when software patents are infringed upon. I can't see any of the major players bitching about patents particularly when the chinese can shut them out of the market.
Well, we can take some comfort in that in the case of Taiwan, we can deny Taiwan independence and sell Taiwan 2nd rate weapons at a premium, thus making back some of the money they made from us. . . However, to be fair, China has pretty much lured away most of Taiwan's counterfeitting manufacturors with low wage and lax laws. . . however, software piracy is still fairly rampant in Taiwan.
We will see them in Walmart piled from ceiling to floor with little yellow smiley faces saying "we roll back price. you buy mips now. we own all your base."
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How exactly can literacy increase by "over a thousand percent?" Did they give up on teaching math?
Chinese culture, as the father of all East Asian cultures...
Sounds to me like you've bought into Chinese authoritarian propaganda. Many groups of people think education is important -- and in the United States, you are free to say what you want in the classroom. Clearly, any government that can raise people to believe such jingoistic, generalizing statements is a threat to the nations around it and to the rights of its citizens.