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Chinese x86 compatible cpu
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:14 am
by allix
This is quite interesting as its another challenge to the dominant intel cpu that dominates the market...
Erik Metzger, a patent attorney at Intel, says that the chip will only perform at about 80 percent of the speed of an actual x86 chip. "That implies that [the Chinese government] is going after a low-end market," he says. This is the same market that Intel is targeting with its classmate PC and low-power atom microprocessor. Metzger adds that the inner workings of the chip, known as its instruction set, have not yet been disclosed, making it difficult to know if or how any x86 patents may have been breeched.
In a few years, we could see pcs a lot cheaper , sadly at the expense of poor badly paid workers...
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_ar ... x?id=21322
Re: Chinese x86 compatible cpu
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:45 am
by MattKingUSA
allix wrote:This is quite interesting as its another challenge to the dominant intel cpu that dominates the market...
Erik Metzger, a patent attorney at Intel, says that the chip will only perform at about 80 percent of the speed of an actual x86 chip. "That implies that [the Chinese government] is going after a low-end market," he says. This is the same market that Intel is targeting with its classmate PC and low-power atom microprocessor. Metzger adds that the inner workings of the chip, known as its instruction set, have not yet been disclosed, making it difficult to know if or how any x86 patents may have been breeched.
In a few years, we could see pcs a lot cheaper , sadly at the expense of poor badly paid workers...
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_ar ... x?id=21322
Very good, that will ensure a low cost...I like it...I'll take 10. Now if we can just get the children working on them it can bring the cost down even more.
Re: Chinese x86 compatible cpu
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:14 am
by Wally Balljacker
MattKingUSA wrote:allix wrote:This is quite interesting as its another challenge to the dominant intel cpu that dominates the market...
Erik Metzger, a patent attorney at Intel, says that the chip will only perform at about 80 percent of the speed of an actual x86 chip. "That implies that [the Chinese government] is going after a low-end market," he says. This is the same market that Intel is targeting with its classmate PC and low-power atom microprocessor. Metzger adds that the inner workings of the chip, known as its instruction set, have not yet been disclosed, making it difficult to know if or how any x86 patents may have been breeched.
In a few years, we could see pcs a lot cheaper , sadly at the expense of poor badly paid workers...
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_ar ... x?id=21322
Very good, that will ensure a low cost...I like it...I'll take 10. Now if we can just get the children working on them it can bring the cost down even more.
I take it Allix isn't a fan of Wal-Mart.
Re: Chinese x86 compatible cpu
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:09 pm
by allix
Wally Balljacker wrote:
I take it Allix isn't a fan of Wal-Mart.
I shop at places like Wal-Mart ...
I do however think people should be paid well... I am not one of those people who thinks if something cost more that the worker who put it together gets paid more... its simple not true.... A lot of products are made in the same factory and depending on what logo is on the front, it will determine its price....
Re: Chinese x86 compatible cpu
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:36 pm
by eddie
Maybe we will get lucky and China as well as other countries in the east will get unions.
Re: Chinese x86 compatible cpu
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:40 pm
by MattKingUSA
eddie wrote:Maybe we will get lucky and China as well as other countries in the east will get unions.
They have a union. It's called the peoples republic.
