Supercomputer POWER

Intel already had this. Forgot the name of this, since wikipedia is temporarily closed. Intel did this last year.

CottageLV said:

Intel already had this. Forgot the name of this, since wikipedia is temporarily closed. Intel did this last year.

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I don't think you know what you are talking about ! you will need to read/study a lot of CPU technology.

I know you meant Intel Sandy Bridge, right ? .. it is not the same concept

CottageLV said:

Intel already had this. Forgot the name of this, since wikipedia is temporarily closed. Intel did this last year.

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Which one? Intel 'Larrabee'? Larrabee was failure but end of last year showed of . Is that what you are referring to? Knights Corner is not a CPU.

Don't forget, this seems to be China's 1st attempt at its own 'Instruction Set Architecture' (ISA) instead of relying on foreign ISA such as x86, ARM, MIPS etc.

Despite Larrabee's lack of success, it's already been done.

In the article's comparison table, the UPU is made using the 65 nm process and yet it's more efficient than the other chips using the 40 nm process. It's a strong selling point if it's what is as claimed.

CottageLV said:

Despite Larrabee's lack of success, it's already been done.

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Even then, 'Larrabee' was not a CPU. It was Intels attempt at competing with AMD (ATI) & nVidia Discrete GPUs - . ICube UPU in contrast is different. Only closest things are AMD Brazos/Llano & Intel Sandy Bridge (APUs) but the integration is nowhere near the UPU. Thats why its called a UPU (Unified Processor Unit). AMD is full steam ahead with its fusion - , but looks like ICube UPU guys beat them to that. Its a very impressive feat. A Unified Processor Unit with its own instruction set (unlike Loongson or ShenWei CPUs). Now the question is how far can they go? Especially promoting it commercially.....

China must have a huge market for really cheap Android devices, so in that respect their position is very encouraging. I'd love to have a PC using such a chip and I suppose the IC4 running at 2 Ghz will probably be already stronger then the chip I am using now. When in a few years they are producing 64 bit processors they may well sweep the x86 processors from the Chinese market and possibly also from other non-Western markets.

Quickie said:

In the article's comparison table, the UPU is made using the 65 nm process and yet it's more efficient than the other chips using the 40 nm process. It's a strong selling point if it's what is as claimed.

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Can China produce photolithography machines or steppers?

Can China produce photolithography machines or steppers?

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Yes it can.

CottageLV said:

Can China produce photolithography machines or steppers?

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I haven't checked into this. Maybe they should include this in their development plan as they did for the CPUs? Or they already did, not sure.

By steppers, do you mean stepper motors? I googled, apparently there're Chinese companies manufacturing stepper motors.