Made in China: Country's new supercomputer uses homegrown chips
Found on CNet News on Saturday, 29 October 2011
China is stepping up its semiconductor manufacturing efforts and using domestic chips for its latest supercomputer. It's going to be interesting to see how fast China can close in on U.S. supercomputer processor makers Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.
The Wall Street Journal noted that the China domestic supercomputing effort is very credible and signals an effort to cut the country's reliance on western companies. It's unclear whether China's chips are completely original blueprints or based on a previous design.
Maybe those blueprints are from other companies. It's not really much of a secret that China is the biggest player when it comes to industrial espionage and considering that a lot of factories over there already produce chips for others, it's not really far-fetched to assume that the technology behind those chips is not 100% chinese.