Chinese Develops Home-Grown Processor

[HenryTo]

From Sify.com. This is a little bit late - but this is a pretty significant development. As a consumer of computing power, I sincerely hope that the company can develop some serious competition with Intel.
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Godson II versus Pentium III

Tuesday, 19 April , 2005, 13:43

Beijing: Computer hardware giant, China has indigenously developed a central processing unit (CPU) chip, which is equivalent to Pentium III chips and will soon start mass-producing them.

'Godson II' is China's first 64-bit high-performance processor, which supports 64-bit Linux operating system and X-window system. It has more advantages and functions than 'Godson I' in terms of operating system supporting, Internet surfing and DVD playing, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Chengwei said.

According to tests, the performance of 'Godson II' is 10 times as much as the performance of Godson I. Its maximum frequency is 500 MHz. Its performance is equivalent to Pentium III.

"The authentication committee concluded that Godson II has reached the international level in 2000 and pioneers China's home-made CPU development," Wang was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.

The Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which developed the CPU has also signed a contract with Jiangsu Menglan Group establishing a industrial base to boost the process of developing, mass producing and marketing of Godson CPU chips.

Godson I, developed on September 28, 2002 by the institute, was the first CPU chip of which China has proprietary intellectual property rights.

[HenryTo]

China develops Godson III - now compatible with Intel's x-86 architecture:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/21322/?nlid=1310