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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. Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Great for User by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not an expert but I would guess that a shift to Chinese made chips will be harder on the environment since Chinese pollution laws are generally more lax. Also, if it is pushed by the government, I'm sure they're willing to overlook things. I believe corruption is rife in the People's Republic of China. This is very bad for Intel (and probably AMD, why not?) since there will be a much more cheaply made multi-core CPU available on the market.

    Great for the end consumer, however. Possibly even really really good for me as a United States citizen as Intel/AMD will be forced to drop prices to compete in the world market.

    Also, there's the 'patriotic' view of this and the fact that the U.S. owes China dearly as a trade partner. Import import import import and export nothing. This would be further propagating that, thus hurting the dollar a tiny bit more.

    Oh well, such are the intricacies of world economics.

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  2. Why x86-compatible? by pipatron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder why they are working on making this CPU x86-compatible. If they want to be really "free" from the western IT-world they don't have to care about running Windows, and when they don't have to care about that, they can just adopt gcc, the rest of GNU and Linux to run natively on their own instruction set.

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  3. US Export Laws Helps This Project by darkmeridian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to the article, "Federal laws also prohibit the export of state-of-the-art microprocessors from the United States to China, meaning that microchips shipped to China are usually a few generations behind the newest ones in the West." Thus, a native Chinese microprocessor project does not need to be state-of-the-art. It just has to be good enough to compete with the older stuff from Intel and AMD. Once the Chinese build up their own knowledge base in microprocessor design, then nationalism and Communism will help foist it upon their populace as they demand computers. It'll be interesting to see how this dovetails with any effort to create Red Flag Linux to move away from the Wintel-opoly.

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  4. Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Bad for User by sethstorm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Transmeta has tried, Godson has already tried, and both have yet to make a dent. It's just another knockoff that will not take off.

    Like a lot of things from China, reliability will be suspect, not to mention any willful patent infringement.

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  5. Re:Whew... by avandesande · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually the first thing that popped in my mind was 'why don't they just buy AMD'
    AMD has really good technology but extremely poor financials... the Chinese could turn them around.

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  6. Re:Bad for Environment--Bad for Intel--Bad for Use by Stephen+Ma · · Score: 4, Interesting
    And since when has government backing been a good idea for product development?

    Since the Arpanet/Internet was born?