2005-09-12 Chinas economy hunt to catch up

Hightech according to plan – China

After the take-over of IBM’s PC division by the Chinese company Lenovo, follows now the the development of its own microprocessor. This was developed from the institute of computer technology of the Academy of Science in Peking and carries the name “Godson-2”. By modern attributes of the CPU as e.g. the 64-bit-architecture and a dynamical step-forecast are parallels recognizably to the processor R10000 which is produced from the US-company MIPS. According a study the China chip is beyond that to 95 per cent compatible with MIPS. Royalities didn’t pay the Chinese for it. In view of these facts the US experts agreed that Peking thereby is able to develop worldclass chips. The only handicap is the production engineering: With a manufacturing technology of 0,13-micrometre is this operation still far behind that of the western standards. If China succeeds to grow from a cheap producer to a contractor and therefore let produce in other countries, it would come to manufacturing technologies, which the west refuses it at present. Therefore a further development would not get in the way.

A further step of China to the change to a high-tech country, is the introduction of an “enhanced versatile disc” including own player, instead of a westerly standard DVD.

Also a cooperation between Chinas biggest e-commerce-supplierer Alibababa and Yahoo lets hope for the future big things.

(source: CHIP 10/2005)