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- swmbuk, on 03/30/2009, -8/+62Chintel Inside!
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -7/+48Instruction set hasn't been revealed so no one knows how many patents have been broken. Anyone want to take bets on the final tally? Not that it matters over there.
- Mootabolife, on 09/03/2008, -11/+34It's run by 2008 tiny Chinese people working in sync.
- bal00, on 09/03/2008, -6/+28Lightning-fast HTML rendering of most* websites!
- rulezgetbent, on 09/03/2008, -4/+20Seriously Guys? US wont export our newest chips to them, so theyre making their own. And it's a contracted Swedish company making them. Godson chips have been out for a while. Did you all even read the article?
- ikayto, on 09/03/2008, -5/+19Those chips say they're 16 years old but records show they're only 14.
- fullmetalglove, on 09/03/2008, -0/+13Let me get this straight.
You guys usually are up in arms against RIAA and fully support Pirate Bay. But when it comes to a uncomfiremd possibility that the Chinese company might have used one of the most richest company's intellectual property, you guys are all about copyrights?
Holy *****, I thought I would never see the day. - inactive, on 09/03/2008, -2/+15This may be good, this may be bad, but it'll sure as hell be a lot cheaper.
- hamobu, on 09/03/2008, -5/+16Chinese chip will simulate X86 instruction set, which means that it will run X86 compiled program slower. That means unless Microsoft re-compiles windows and other software to run natively on the Godson-3 chip, Open source software will have an advantage on this platform.
- drmangrum, on 09/03/2008, -2/+13No, but that doesn't mean they get a free pass to rip off other engineers works. China has a bad record of "inventing" new technologies that is nothing more than having their slave labor making what's already been invented cheaper. There is very little in the way of innovation that comes out of China.
- PabloMac, on 09/03/2008, -2/+13Honest and fair competition is good for everyone.
Fixed. - Mootabolife, on 09/03/2008, -3/+13Blind trust, how nice of you.
I'll be over here buying what's best at the time. - SSUK, on 09/03/2008, -3/+12Before anyone else takes protodon's comment seriously: He's joking. Laugh.
- swmbuk, on 03/30/2009, -4/+13That's not exactly true, say you owned or run a company that invented something and someone stole the idea, what was the point? Great inventors need some reward in order to want to do the same again. Plus i bet you wouldn't say that if someone sold you a knockoff TV etc...
- chuckDontSurf, on 09/03/2008, -1/+10Now with 20% more lead!!
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+8Newsflash: Only AMD, Intel and VIA have licenses to produce x86 chips. Do you think China will launch a CPU that isn't going to use the x86 instruction set?
- Mootabolife, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8No, it's because you said you will always trust Intel. Meaning that if they release some slow POS, and other companies release better products, you will still happily buy Intel. That's flawed logic. I agree that Intel is a good company, but I give my trust on a case by case basis.
- sexybobo, on 09/03/2008, -1/+8Won't be able to buy them in the USA since they will infringe on a number of patents.
- douggmc, on 09/03/2008, -4/+11Reminds me of when IBM sold their laptop division to Lenovo ... we all affectionately renamed our Thinkpads to Chinkpads.
Sorry for the racial slur ... but humor has to have a victim sometimes. - davids1, on 09/03/2008, -2/+9This great news. Early of the year 2008 I purchased stock from st microelectronics, which is developing this CPU, after st microelectronics purchased a smaller chip firm. Good news since then! Also the comments here are of little thought please stop turning digg into a chan go there to be a comedy. The "chinese" are making huge strides despite the western media negative light. st microelectronics is a fantastic swizz based company which also is helping large american firm IBM develop new standards for process of 22nm fabs.
- hexydes, on 09/03/2008, -2/+9Better check their ages...
- xoineg, on 09/03/2008, -9/+16so they probably ripped Intel or AMD off...is the chinese way...violate patents and sell it cheaper...is not funny anymore...until they get sued for a trillion dollars...
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -3/+9Simulate an x86 instruction set, my God.. why bother? 8 cores and it probably still won't run x86 as fast as a Pentium II 400MHz.
- maninalift, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6which way will microsoft go? It's usual route is to protect a few technologies that it feels it can remain dominant in believing that without it' support other technologies will fail but with a market the size of China it might just feel worried about loosing out.
- Mootabolife, on 09/03/2008, -2/+8With built in chips to track your information.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -1/+7Ahh, but can it handle Crysis?
- sexybobo, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6Loose what? People in china do not buy windows.
- morpheus69, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5Ummm.... the Chinese market for authentic, licensed software is tiny...everyone copies. Redhat has the right model. "Go ahead, take our stuff, but when you can't figure it out call us and we'll be happy to take your money in return for helping to get you up and running!"
- doom777, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5lenovos are actually awesome
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6I wonder what the Intel sound would sound like played on Chinese instruments.
- BXRWXR, on 09/03/2008, -8/+12Using intellectual capital without recompense isn't competition - it's stealing.
- hamobu, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4Microsoft is not like a spoiled child. More like a ruthless competitor.
Also, Microsoft will develop new version of windows if they thing that the entire country of China would switch to Linux. - BuddingMonkey, on 09/03/2008, -1/+5Your English are the worst I think
- Flytrap, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4I love America... I love me more!
- shutaro, on 09/03/2008, -2/+6Why so serious?
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -1/+5See: RFID.
- swmbuk, on 03/30/2009, -2/+5And the Mao Zedong startup pictures are awesome, so I'm told.
- strictnein, on 09/03/2008, -6/+9Probably the most moronic comment ever.
Please invent something someday. Because I am going to rip you off. - shutaro, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4Well... You get what you pay for. This is China we're talking about, here...
- p3ngwin, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3exactly!
Hollywood (MP/Riaa) and the rest of America think it can dictate the laws that overseas countries should live by.
if they're not careful, America will lose all that it gains from Chinese exports and have the pleasure of watching itself become a 3rd world country.
China provides all it needs for electronics hardware AND software.
America provides SOME hardware (CPU's) and most of it's software. (without hardware software is useless)
now, imagine if push comes to shove......
China has enough and decides it would rather sell to other countries that don't try to dictate how they should live. America is left with no electronic hardware and has to start making it itself again, difficult after years of outsourcing.
China continues to grow and sell to anyone with money and continues to evolve.
there are signs that is already beginning to happen:
China gets fed-up with Hollywood pressure about piracy and decides to ban Hollywood films altogether.
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5101 ...
China develops it's own CPU's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
(anyone arguing about "without X86 it's useless", misses the point about a nation making it's *own* O.S's and apps for their *own* hardware......china can make the hardware, OS, apps,etc for it's self so why need x86?)
America is left learning from a very bold and brash mistake of thinking it is more influential than it actually is. not a smart move. - ornitier, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4If by slaves, you mean the machines that are used to make microprocessors. It's not possible to make nanometer chips with the human eye.
- Rtaylor32, on 09/03/2008, -7/+10"bring personal computing to most ordinary people in China by 2010" When exactly will they achieve personal freedom, an independent press, an impartial judiciary system? Oh this story is about tech not politics sorry...whateves.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Oh ha ha, doom777, that was funny.
What a clever racist jab.
Go back to your Cheerios, you fat blob. - Spetz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3ST Microelectronics are not a Swiss company. I work for them. We're a European based multinational and make a very wide variety of integrated circuits from flash memory to MEMS. STMicroelectronics was created in 1987 by the merger of SGS Microelettronica of Italy and Thomson Semiconducteurs of France.
http://www.st.com/stonline/company/index.htm - scamper22, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4yeah. except when they release it will probably cost a fraction of the price and be 'good enough' for most users.
- Stemp, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4Do you understand it's not an x86 processor ?
- FutureGuy, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Since it would only have to render this much.
*Censored* - eigenweasel, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2So kind of like a voice-over where the popular instruction set is on show and the hidden one does all the work?
- jxbrown, on 09/03/2008, -5/+7Ha! Who needs to read the article when we can just make up witty comments?
- benaa, on 09/14/2008, -0/+2that joke is getting old, and there is no proof of the the girls being 14. as you try to deny china's advance into the leading role in world economy and technology, all you can do is to make stupid jokes which have no substance. go get a life.
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