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Given China's proclivity for stealing tech and previous history of stolen processors I'll believe this is evidence of China's R&D capability when an independent
by msy 16y ago
Given China's proclivity for stealing tech and previous history of stolen processors I'll believe this is evidence of China's R&D capability when an independent 3rd party tears the chip down.
- iuguy 16y agoThe Loongson family was developed at the Institute of Computing Technology in China. It's based on the MIPS design but the original processors were missing 4 instructions covered by MIPS Technologies patents. ICT now licence the MIPS architectures directly from MIPS Technologies, so there's nothing stolen about it.
- runjake 16y agoI'm not sure if you didn't read the article or are unfamiliar with the MIPS platform, but it is widely licensed and still widely used in certain embedded segments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#Licensable_architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#Licensable_ar... My first thought upon seeing the headline was "IP theft" too.
- msy 16y agoI'm familiar with MIPS, I'm was referring more to the specific implementation and fabrication technology.