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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RE[2]: netbook, laptop, computer...
by collinm on Tue 9th Sep 2008 11:40
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RE[3]: netbook, laptop, computer...
by Laurence on Tue 9th Sep 2008 12:21
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Member since:2007-03-26
there are great software engineer in the open source world... could be nice if some electric engineer start to do open source hardware... like an apn, router, netbook.... it's sure there are very greate electric engineer who read osnews...
There have been open source hardware (Open source CPUs (as featured on here), Reactable, etc)
RE routers: Essentially they're just a low powered PC with a thin OS - you can buy cheap computers to build as a router (again there was an article on OSNews about it) and there's plenty of open source router OSs available to download (most of which appear to be Linux based).
RE[3]: netbook, laptop, computer...
by theosib on Tue 9th Sep 2008 12:41
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Member since:2006-03-02
The Open Graphics Project and Open Hardware Foundation are two organizations among several who are actively developing "open source hardware". The Open Graphics Project already has an FPGA-based development board up for pre-order, and they're almost done with basic (unaccelerated) graphics hardware for it. Among other things, they have developed a simple harvard architecture MIPS-inspired controller they call HQ.
RE[3]: netbook, laptop, computer...
by collinm on Tue 9th Sep 2008 12:56
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Member since:2005-07-15
a couple opensource hardware...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_hardware
but if i go to radioshak... i will not find it
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2005-07-06
x86 compatibility is fine for joe sixpack who fear to use another thing then popular cpu
hope many linux distribution will use it
bty... why nobody use sun gpl cpu?
*shrug* SPARC IIe was an ok processor, it had a lower power foot print, I'm surprised no one has come forward and attempted to make it even more low powered. Then again, I guess it is alot easier to do something from the ground up than taken an out of date idea and retrofit it to todays requirements.