Chinese gear up supercomputer with home-grown chips
THE DAWNING 5000A supercomputer will be up and running in the latter half of next year, the director of the National Research Centre for Intelligent Computer Systems at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sun Ninghui, announced at a Shenzhen technology meeting Friday.
The 5000A is being independently developed by China and will use the Chinese developed Longxin III CPU. The 5000A is expected to be more than 10 times faster than the Dawning 4000A, developed in cooperation with AMD. The 4000A reached speeds of 10 teraflops.
Although countries with leading supercomputer power, such as the US, have sought to restrict the export of speedy hardware, The Chinese have been able to make some notable Great Leaps on their own. Spokesman, Mr. Sun revealed that a more advanced and speedier version of the supercomputer, the 5000L, would be released sometime in 2010.
China has 19 supercomputers on the top 500 list and accounts for 3.8 percent of the world's supercomputing power. The US, Germany, and the UK lead China in grand floppers. ยต
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China and other Asian countries have been making our hardware for more than a decade now, and designing it for almost as long.
Given their current drive and their experience in the technological arena, I firmly believe that China will be defining the standards of the industry in the next twenty years or so.
Especially if the US continues its slide towards ignorance in the educational sector.
Loongson 2E/2F are already and will be soon available today for desktop computing and small server applications and perform admirably despite their currently relatively low clock speeds compared to the x86 competitors. In fact I have such a computer running a modern Linux distribution now.

With the launch of Loongson 3 we will see a huge shift from x86 based processors that are in no way bad performers to these low power multicore ones, that will be running at the same or higher speeds than Intel/AMD equivalents in a few years time.
"Especially if the US continues its slide towards ignorance in the educational sector." 

What an ignorant uneducated generalization.

Thanks,