Supercomputing in China - Loongson, Lenovo, Dawning Information Industry, Media History of China, Steve Chen, Shanghai Supercomputer Center (Paperback)

Chapters: Loongson, Lenovo, Dawning Information Industry, Media History of China, Steve Chen, Shanghai Supercomputer Center. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Loongson (Chinese: pinyin: longxn, academic name: Godson, also known as Dragon chip) is a family of general-purpose MIPS-compatible CPUs developed at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the People's Republic of China. The chief architect is Professor Weiwu Hu. Loongson is the result of a public-private partnership. BLX IC Design Corporation was founded in 2002 by ICT and Jiangsu Zhongyi Group. Based in Beijing, BLX focuses on designing the advanced 32-bit/64-bit Loongson general-purpose and embedded processors, together with developing software tools and reference platforms. ST Microelectronics fabricates and markets Loongson chips for BLX, which is fabless. The processor was initially named (pinyin: GuSheng), meaning "Dog Leftover" in Chinese, to follow the Chinese tradition of giving a newborn baby a humble name for easier upbringing and better health. "Godson" was the English name, as it is pronounced similarly to "Gou Sheng." Later, Loongson, which means the "Dragon Core" Chip, was declared as the official name, with "Godson" still being used as an internal codename by developers. Loongson's instruction set is MIPS compatible, but the internal microarchitecture is independently developed by ICT. Early implementations of the family lacked four instructions patented by MIPS Technologies to avoid legal issues. In 2007, a deal was reached by MIPS Technologies and ICT. ST Microelectronics bought a MIPS license for Loongson and thus the processor can be promoted as MIPS Based or MIPS compatible instead of MIPS-like. In June 2009, ICT licenced t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1764207