Re: Chinese V-Dragon processor running Midori Linux

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: 29 Jul 2003 03:24:58 GMT

Quoth totojepast@atlas.cz (totojepast):
> I was amazed when I've read some information about the Chinese
> V-Dragon processor running Midori Linux:
> http://news.google.com/news?q=v-dragon

> They claim IBM helped them to design the processor - does it mean it
> is PowerPC-based?

There was some talk a while back about a Chinese fab of a PPC-based
chip.

But this doesn't sound like that; it sounds a lot more like they're
putting a brave face on having basically built Yet Another IA-32
clone.

It shouldn't be too remarkable that a Chinese company could build
IA-32 clones; after all, they have plants that build motherboards, and
Samsung, in Korea, not _too_ far away, is one of the makers of Alpha
chips. (Wonder how China got the ability to build Alphas? Well,
Korea's closer than the US...) 

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