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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sri_lion" data-source="post: 3111840" data-attributes="member: 4103">A Chinese Challenge to IntelResearchers have revealed details of China's latest homegrown microprocessor.In California last week, Chinese researchers unveiled details of a microprocessor that they hope will bring personal computing to most ordinary people in China by 2010. The chip, code-named Godson-3, was developed with government funding by more than 200 researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology (ICT).China is making a late entry into chip making, admits Zhiwei Xu, deputy director of ICT. "Twenty years ago in China, we didn't support R&D for microprocessors," he said during a presentation last week at the Hot Chips conference, in Palo Alto. "The decision makers and [Chinese] IT community have come to realize that CPUs [central processing units] are important."<img src="http://www.technologyreview.com/files/20661/hotchip_x220.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=storage&id=21322" target="_blank">Read More >></a></blockquote>

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