[exhaustguy]

Do you really think they designed it? I bet if you looked closely you would see a bunch of patents which were violated (both software and hardware). I am not a computer guy, but I have experience with how they handle IP in the mobile equipment industry.

[Ancient Drive]

oh I agree. I’m 100% sure they broke a couple of patents to get there.

[SeekAndFind]

Do you really think they designed it?

Let's just say for the sake of argument that they copied the technology... the next question comes to mind --- what's to stop them from going to the next stage -- actually innovating and improving on this technology ?

Just go to any insitution of higher learning in this country and even in Europe and count the number of Chinese enrolled in their technical programs -- engineering, software, physics, bio-technology, math, the sciences and you being to ask yourselves, how many of us wish to excel in these fields versus them...

[Vroomfondel]

Do you really think they designed it?

Probably based on Loongson, which executes the MIPS ISA.

[indthkr]

"Do you really think they designed it?"

The Chinese most certainly steal technology, as do a number of other countries. But they are the most blatent at thumbing their nose at Global IP conventions. It's always cheaper to steal something than build it yourself.

That doesn't mean they can't do the design & development. Try a literature search, or check-out the names of the grad students at any major university engineering department. In some cases, their just stealing something that one of their other ex-pats developed.