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Strategies & Market Trends : True face of China -- A Modern Kaleidoscope -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (9123)	10/28/2010 11:46:41 AM
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[Although I think the CPU may still be INTC or AMD. So next step for China is to accelerate Dragon Chip and use China's own CPU!]--"China Wrests Supercomputer Title From U.S. By ASHLEE VANCE Published: October 28, 2010 nytimes.com A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower. ... The Chinese system follows that model by linking thousands upon thousands of chips made by the American companies Intel and Nvidia. But the secret sauce behind the system — and the technological achievement — is the interconnect, or networking technology, developed by Chinese researchers that shuttles data back and forth across the smaller computers at breakneck rates, Mr. Dongarra said. “That technology was built by them,” Mr. Dongarra said. “They are taking supercomputing very seriously and making a deep commitment.” ... Mr. Dongarra said a long-running Chinese project to build chips to rival those from Intel and others remained under way and looked promising. “It’s not quite there yet, but it will be in a year or two,” he said."