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CottageLV

Banned Idiot
The latest high end process is available to those who bought the latest chip making machines. A short while ago ASML produced their newest machine just before a dip in the sale of those machines. I remember it well as my wife had tried to find work with then a few months before. It would have been extremely strange if in a time they had to suspend hundreds of their employees they would have refuse to sell such machine to China.
Another point: If China had used 65 nm chips in their new supercomputer and their computer designers had been absolutely brilliant while the designers of Jaguar had been extremely stupid the power efficiency of that new supercomputer could not possibly be five times as good as Jaguar's.

Are their any stepper/photo-lithography machine manufacturers from China? I know Canon and Nikon produce them commercially, not the best but still decent.
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
Posted by GT at CDF.

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Wow! This looks science fiction. If it's real... I thought China had scaled back on HSR.
 

Schumacher

Senior Member
Posted by GT at CDF.
Wow! This looks science fiction. If it's real... I thought China had scaled back on HSR.

Well, scaled back is only in relative term to the extremely high levels of past 2 years. Besides, the official reason for scaling back was for safety checks.
If the checks are done, maybe they'll scale it back up again when China moves from inflation fighting policies to pro-growth ones.
 

Schumacher

Senior Member
Chinese wind power goes to South America.

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Goldwind Taps Chile Market with Wind Turbines
2011-12-09 - [Wind Energy] - mark inShare

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Goldwind) announced that it has entered into an agreement with international new energy developer Mainstream Renewable Power (“Mainstream”) to provide Mainstream’s Negrete project (phase one) in Chile with 23 low wind-speed Permanent Magnet Direct Drive (PMDD) turbines.

This is Goldwind’s second order from South America. Earlier this year, Goldwind agreed to supply wind turbines and lead construction and commissioning activities as a “one-stop shop” service portfolio for a high-altitude wind farm project in Ecuador, which marks another achievement in Goldwind’s global expansion.

The project will be located in central Chile, about 12 km from Los Angeles city. Goldwind will provide the project with its GW87/1500 low wind-speed PMDD turbines. Goldwind’s GW87/1500 turbines, which have an 87 m rotor diameter and 1500kW rated capacity, were designed and developed to target low wind speed conditions with an average wind speed of 6m/s to 8m/s. The turbine generates 5% more electricity than those with an 82 m rotor diameter................................................................
 

Schumacher

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China ready to "speed up" HSR again.

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"QINGDAO, Shandong, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's largest rail vehicle maker, CSR Corp. Ltd, over the weekend launched its first test train that features speeds reaching up to 500 km per hour.

The six-car train with a fairshaped head is the newest in the CRH series. It has a maximum tractive power of 22,800 kilowatts, compared with 9,600 kilowatts for the CRH380 trains currently in service on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, which hold the world speed record of 300 km per hour.........................................................."
 

Hendrik_2000

Lieutenant General
All those people who said China is weak in software should read this
Another domestically built supercomputer this time using Longson 3A chip

China-developed server boosts high-tech chain
Updated: 2011-12-21 07:53
By Zhang Zhao (China Daily)
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Employs all proprietary software and hardware

The recent success of the Longteng server using a home-designed Loongson CPU is an important step in building China's proprietary IT industry and enhancing national security, say industry insiders.

Developed by Tianjin-based Dawning Information Industry Co Ltd, the Longteng server has "full Chinese proprietary intellectual property from the hardware to the operating system, application software and middleware", said Deng Hongsheng, the director of Dawning's Longteng server department.

Middleware is a kind of software that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact.

The Longteng server with the Loongson 3A quad-core CPU can accommodate the NeoKylin and NFS operating systems developed by Chinese companies based on Linux.


The Longteng server has "particularly high security, because its hardware and software are both home-developed", said Nie Hua, vice-president of the company.

"It will help eliminate the security problems currently existing in many fields in our country, such as e-business and national defense," he said.

"It will also increase our capability in information security management."

China-developed server boosts high-tech chain

The development of China's proprietary computer science technologies is gaining increased international attention.

Two years ago, a story in the popular US-based computing magazine Wired said "the Loongson chip is going to change more than just computer ownership rates in the most populous nation on the planet".

"It's going to have a profound impact on computers everywhere," said the article titled "The People's Processor".

Dawning President Li Jun noted "if we want a Chinese CPU to become mainstream, we have to take it out of the lab to the market and let it join the competition".

Li Guojie, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said the arrival of the Longteng server will "integrate many of China's other recent achievements in core electronics components, high-end chips and basic software", helping promote the commercialization of the Loongson series CPU.

The success will also help develop a number of related home-developed products including operating systems, middleware, and database and application software to help establish China's own IT industry chain, said Li.

The central and Tianjin governments each granted Dawning a 15 million yuan ($2.3 million) subsidy to build a production line making five types of servers based on the Loongson CPU. The company aims to sell 1,000 servers over the next year.

Deng noted an additional benefit is the server's eco-friendly design.

"In addition, we took the concept of eco-friendliness into consideration and implemented a series of energy-saving measures," he said.

Founded in 1996, the company built the Dawning Nebulae supercomputer last year that has a computing speed of 1.27 petaflops per second, the second-fastest in the world.

China Daily
 
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