watch out intel and amd, there's a new player on the block

[Baked]

Another step towards the Middle Kingdom taking over the world. Muahahahhahahaha

 

[ElFenix]

Cyrix.



Edit...

Damn you.

wait

what?

really?

cyrix?

 

[Miramonti]

It's one thing to arrive on the block, it's another thing to stay. Ask the crips and bloods about this one.

 

[darkxshade]

Are you saying its impossible to take an idea and improve it?

With an argument like that, what could China legitimately do that you wouldn't call stealing?

 

[DrunkenSano]

I would never trust a Chinese made component, the better stuff comes from Taiwan.

 

[jhu]

Are you people tech enthusiasts or slack-jawed yokels? This thing uses MIPS processors.

 

[Jeff7]

wait

what?

really?

cyrix?

Twas a joke.

(Or....is it?:hmm

 

[ElFenix]

Are you people tech enthusiasts or slack-jawed yokels? This thing uses MIPS processors.

oh.


MIPS was actually a competing project to RISC back in the day. one was at cal and the other at stanford.

AMD had a MIPS license and sold it about 8 or 9 years ago.

SGI used MIPS processors for their workstations back in the day.

 

[rivan]

Photo: nVidia

:hmm:

 

[dawp]

:hmm:

ya, I caught that before I started the thread.

 

[Lithium381]

give it a few years, it'll be competitive

 

[KMFJD]

But can it run Crysis?

Bad code can run well enough when you throw enough power at it

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Will the Chinese eventually have the chips made in America to increase profits?

 

[lxskllr]

Will the Chinese eventually have the chips made in America to increase profits?

Possibly :^/

 

[Arkaign]

I would never trust a Chinese made component, the better stuff comes from Taiwan.

Yeah all that Apple junk sucks for sure, iPhone 4s, iPad2, etc. It's just crap.

 

[SamurAchzar]

What the fuck is the babbling on IP theft about? They don't need to steal anything from Intel or AMD. This is likely RISC based and uses one of the established core designs (ARM or MIPS come to mind). They probably manufacture in TSMC or UMC in Taiwan just like 99% of the AMERICAN semiconductor industry, and the other IP in their chips is again just bought or self developed. I don't think there's any overlap with Intel technology, the processor architecture they use is more like your cell phone, not your PC.

There are countless companies, American and otherwise, that develop System-On-Chip processors in this 1GHz class. Intel is not among them and today it's easier than ever to develop these processors no matter what your nationality is.

 

[SamurAchzar]

Are you people tech enthusiasts or slack-jawed yokels? This thing uses MIPS processors.

I haven't followed MIPS in a while but from what I know they are an IP company like ARM is, meaning they don't manufacture anything, just license their processing cores. It's probably a MIPS core in a Chinese chip, manufactured in Taiwan.

 

[Rubycon]

Are you people tech enthusiasts or slack-jawed yokels? This thing uses MIPS processors.

Yes the article says it does not use Intel or AMD chips.