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A Chinese Challenge To Intel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bits-and-bytes dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:China's "sayonara" MS, Intel by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Asian language pedantry: Sayonara is Japanese.  You're looking for Zai Jian. 再 見

  2. Re:Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Bad for Use by ByOhTek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, from the article, I think this is the dragon cpu (dragonchip in the article)

    And it is being produced.

    It also makes the VIA processors look like incredible speed demons.

    So the problem isn't being able to make them, but being able to make them /not suck/.

    --
    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
  3. Re:Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Bad for Use by bestinshow · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the third major redesign of the Dragon chip. If you had read the article (haha, slashdot joke etc) you would have seen that apparently with each update they've tripled the performance, or so they say. There's been about 8 updates for the second major design of the chip, they're on 2G or 2H now, with integrated GPUs, and even integrated chipsets (System on Chip).

    Godson-3 / Dragon-3 chip will have 4 cores at 5W/core (allegedly) and interface using HyperTransport to a chipset (so they can probably use any compatible chipset from the PC world).

  4. Re:Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Great for U by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Informative

    >Iraq started breaking stride with the other oil producing nations and allowing Euros to be traded instead of US Dollars. Then they got invaded, and that put a stop to that.

    That sounds bad for Iran since they did that too some months ago.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUSBLA02024820080430
    Iran conducts all crude trade in euro, yen

  5. Re:Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Bad for Use by evilviper · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heard from them recently?

    Yes. They're being included in low-end computers, set-top boxes, and supercomputers, all over China. Such as the Tianhua GX-1C.

    The Dragon chips (and variations of) are also gaining some traction in Europe and the US, being used in a couple dirt-cheap $250 EEE PC clones. eg.: http://www.compsource.com/pn/3KRZ40074GB/3k_Computers_2340/
    http://www.gdium.com/description/

    The CPU fanboys don't understand that it's not about designing chips; it's about designing chips you can then make.

    They've made millions of them.

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