Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Sep 2008 08:52 UTC
When China launched its first microprocessor, the Godson 1 in 2002, it wasn't much of a competitor to what Intel and AMD had to offer. The 64bit Godson 2, released in 2005, still didn't worry the Western chip makers, but the chip did start to pop up here and there outside of China. Expect to see a lot more of them in the coming years, as the Godson 3 promises to be a chip that can compete head on with the big ones: quad-core, eight core version in the pipeline, and 200 extra instructions aiding in x86 compatibility.
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2006-11-17
I believe the conditions are there now. Open source software has enough quality and momemtum to provide a very functional system on any architecture. Previously, market share did matter a lot. Nowadays, even if your architecture has less than 1% marketshare, you can have a lot of functional and quality software to run on it.