A Chinese Challenge To Intel

motang writes "Chinese government funded Godson-3 a CPU that is developed to bring personal computing to majority of Chinese people by the year 2010. Will this pose any threat to Intel?"

Comments

Re:Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Great for U

[ShieldW0lf]

If the Chinese government dumped the goods that were made for export into the ocean, they wouldn't have any less for themselves. They don't get anything in exchange for the US currency. It means nothing. China knows they're not getting anything back from the US, not now, not in the future. They keep going they way they are because it's a way to keep the citizens busy so they won't make trouble.

American money is like Air Miles.

Made in China

[DrYak]

since the developers do not have semiconductor fabs of their own (a very expensive investment), they contract out the actual manufacturing.

Well, it's china we're speaking about. Now that they've had designed the chips, be sure that within one week they will announce brand new chinese fabs costing only 100'000$ to make (but entirely made of wood and catch fire or collapse after 2 months of intensive work). And one month later, a massively huge batch of home made CPU, costing only 1$ a piece (but may suffer from spontaneous combustion and/or more random bugs than all pentiums and phenoms combined)

Re:Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Great for U

[ArcherB]

I thought that was Iran that allowed Euros to buy oil. Also that was after Iraq was invaded.

Now don't go screwing his conspiracy theories up with facts. At best you'll just piss him off and he'll label you as part of the Illuminati or something.