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[vishalrao]

Check out People’s Processor: Embrace China’s Homegrown Computer Chips | Magazine

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Will Loongson-based PCs make inroads with average consumers in the West? You can already order a Lemote netbook online. It isn’t any cheaper or better than other entry-level netbooks, and reviews from geeky hardware enthusiast sites are less than enthusiastic. But these crude first-generation products hark back to another wave of boxy, underpowered consumer goods that were initially regarded as mere curiosities in the West. They were called Toyotas.

We all may have heard of the Loongson/Dragon stuff, but this is the laptop of interest, used by RMS too it seems: http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html

Lemote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.lemote.com/english/

 

[archish]

good on paper with all open source stuff, but i doubt it will ever take off :/

btw this should be really a rare system, cant find any dealers selling this online anywhere in china....

 

[hrohit85]

This is also an open source processor.

An Open Source Processor used in Sun SPARC Servers | OpenSPARC

 

[MHG]

This is also an open source processor.

An Open Source Processor used in Sun SPARC Servers | OpenSPARC

LOLZ, OpenSPARC is for ANYBODY but home users. Its for huge server farms and for hosting insanely large websites.

One of those CPU's costs a friggin 775$ from fujitsu the last time I heard. Opensource does NOT mean free.

BTW it will be cool if AMD manufactured OpenSPARC CPUs in the free nodes from their Global Foundries unit. This thing has stayed 65nm for a long time and then is expected to stay at 45 for an equally long time. So would be an idea thing to manufacture to recover costs from nodes.