Chinese PowerPC released

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beigeuserbeigeuser
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
China has developed their own PowerPC with the help of IBM.



http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10724

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=2...cn-sci.view-000



The article mentions nothing about PowerPC but the photo says it all.



This CPU supposedly costs $20 to $35 per chip. I'm not sure if it's American dollars.



If anyone knows the specs of this chip, please post

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    What photo?
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    beigeuserbeigeuser Posts: 371member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Eugene

    What photo?



    Sorry, bad link. Try this one:



    http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...000004-scn-sci



    BTW, here's another article: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FC02Ad02.html



    Apparently, the cost was in American dollars. The clock speed will start at 400MHz and scale to 1.4GHz. There are some hints of it being low-power but still unclear. Transmeta and IBM were involved in the development. Doesn't seem to be a potential Macintosh CPU but... Could this be the next CPU for a Digital Lifestyle device? Since it seems to use the PowerPC instruction set, a scaled down OS X is possible.
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    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    I'm all for a low power DLD device to make my music listening habit better.
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    henriokhenriok Posts: 537member
    Actually.. If you surf to V-Dragon.com and use Sherlock to translate the traditional Chinese you can get pretty much information of the appliances they are buildning around thse chips. BUT.. nothing about the performance of the processors.



    Culturecom have some additional information in English. They have a video in which they talk a bit (in English) what the Chinese Character Generator Engine is. In short, it's a hardware add on to a PowerPC processor (of unkown kind, probably 440-based though) that can generate 32000 chinese characters (in 5 typefaces) in hardware. Everything from tablet-devices to IP-phones are running V-Dragon.



    Transmeta's role in this equation is not hardware, but software. They built the Midori Linux variant for embedded devices. The V-Dragon devices are running a Chinese variant of Midori Linux.



    They do say that the V-Dragon scales up to 1.4 GHz which is very interessting since the only PowerPC processor made by IBM that have reached those frequencies is the 970. I have a hard time believing that Culturecom have licenced that core though. It's much more probable that they are talking about an yet to be revealed 400 core or 700 core.
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