| Burgles said: I've just read the article.... This is complete bullshit, this CPU they are making isn't designed to compete with any current offerings from Intel on the x86 front , its just so that they CAN run x86 code if they need to at a reasonable speed... Don't go thinking this will have ANY effect AT ALL on the CPU market as far as you and me are concerned! |
It's taken Intel from 1978 to now to make the chips it has. If China can get this far in only a few years and have almost as good compatibility and potentially better native speed than think what it could do next. It's only a short step to full compatibility.
All of that is beside the point, as China WILL make their processor successful in China. This will cause most applications to also be ported to that architecture, or they will lose 1,000,000,000+ potential customers. End result: you have a global market for that architecture. Also, architecture isn't that important when anyone can take your source code and port it themselves, which is why it will mainly support open-source software first. This will cause open-source software to become more successful against Microsoft, Adobe, etc. and then we won't need to care what architecture a chip is, just how fast it is.
