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China tried to create a homegrown CPU 15-20 years ago with their MIPS variant but that died out. I think this time they are much wiser and will pull it off. In
by daghamm 2y ago
China tried to create a homegrown CPU 15-20 years ago with their MIPS variant but that died out. I think this time they are much wiser and will pull it off. In 5-8 years we may have China CPUs dominating the Asian market at least.
Riscv leading to more open designs is wishful thinking, plus probably a large dose of PR. MIPS has been open for years and how many open source MIPS desisgn have we seen so far?
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> China tried to create a homegrown CPU 15-20 years ago with their MIPS variant but that died out. Er, are you talking about LoongArch? The CPU line that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson lists new models of this year?
- daghamm 2y agoYes, I had no idea they were still working on it. You could buy their products in west as a sort of a low-power PC for a short while, but I think once netbooks arrived those just vanished.
- adgjlsfhk1 2y agoPresumably 100% of supply at this point is going into chinese government/military projects where not using a western design with possible backdoors is worth a price premium.