Posted on 06/26/2007 7:10:24 AM PDT by Rock N Jones
Thanks to AMD(AMD), who two years ago transferred some core X86 processor technology to China(one would guess in exchange for business opportunities).
Today, a Beijing University subsidiary company claims that it has completely mastered the X86 technology and is now capable of manufacturing X86 processors. The report also said that during the past two years, AMD has from time to time sent several senior engineers and project managers over to assist China in the "learning" process, which has finally born fruit as of today.
(Excerpt) Read more at whampoafn.net ...
who’d they steal this technology from......??
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Today’s news should serve as yet another reminder of how China does business as Beijing continues to play the same Duopoly strategy, pitting one firm against the other, exchanging market share for core technologies: Boeing vs Airbus, GSM Nokia vs. CDMA Qualcomm, and now Intel vs. AMD. Eventually China will displace all above firms, at least in China(it will take several decades) and be the dominant low-cost producer in cutting edge technology.....end
I wonder how that's working out?
Muslims with a brain...
*shudder*
Stealing was probably not necessary. x86 assembly language and processor design is taught in the ECE/CS departments of most major U.S. universities.
However, some of AMD’s newer, cutting-edge innovations might have been transferred, but then again, there’s Intel, and I highly doubt that they are going to give away their newest and most shiny designs.
The fact that the Chinese are only now “mastering” basic x86 processor design and assembly language is NOT at all impressive.
That’s what I was thinkin’.
Who cares if they make a killer 286? They’re a little late to the party.
Interesting, a ChiComm ‘breakthrough’ is figuring out how to pirate someone else’s technology, rather than developing a new one to advance the capabilities of microprocessors.
AMD stole it from Intel, though.
8 bits and 10 megahertz!!!!
but then again, there’s Intel, and I highly doubt that they are going to give away their newest and most shiny designs.
Intel set up shop there not long ago, and of course the technology went with it. But the lowest they could go was their 90nm process. I doubt China got the latest and greatest in any AMD deal either.
AMD stole nothing.
Intel granted AMD generous licensing deals early on when the were helping provide extra manufacturing capacity for Intel. AMD eventually had to distance itself from copied x86 microcode, which they did. AMD's is now a completely independent, unique implementation of the x86 instruction set, and has been for years.
Interestingly, with the advent of 64-bit x86 processing, AMD turned the tables and became the leader. They released a 64-bit consumer CPU--the Opteron--onto the market in 2003, before Intel, so Intel was essentially forced by the market to make their 64-bit x86 instruction set "AMD compatible".
This is no big deal. There are hundreds of millions of PCs in every corner of the world. If AMD is stupid enough to give trade secrets away to a place with patent and copyright lawlessness; thats their idiocy.
Sure. Just like they’ve “mastered the technology” of producing toothpaste and pet food ingredients.
If AMD gives them technology that hurts Intel’s margins, they might view it as a temporary good thing.
Today I will stop by my car service station to see if the tires he wants to sell me for my SUV are made in
China. Good price.
And for that, I thank them. Intel kept going down the Itanium road until AMD beat them and they were forced to design X86 64 bit processors.
Yup. Large clusters of inexpensive Opterons will stomp all over an Itanium for the same price and power requirements too.
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