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[QUOTE]Originally posted by meninarmer: [QB] South Africa may "integrate" a few computers, but overall, they have no real computer development industry. Intel has a large design and fabrication plant in Israel that designs and fabricates processors, but none have any in Africa. This is by design. Europe and America wish Africa to remain totally dependent on them for computers, and for the most part, they are. As can be seen above, those African students are using US made computers designed especially for so-called, third world countries. They would like to do the save to China, but China leaders are too smart for this and began building their own chip industry 10-20 years ago. Today, China have released 3rd generation x86 compatible processors labeled, Godson, to serve their own vast markets. Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Computing Technology New Godson Multi-Core Server-Class CPU • Petascale Performance Target by 2010 • Backed by China’s Government • MIPS64-Based with 200+ More Instructions for x86 Translation and Acceleration • 16 GFLOPS at 1GHz and 10W of Power • Earlier versions (non-HT), produced by ST Microelectronics and sold to 40 companies in set-top boxes, laptops, etc. 8-Core Multi-Chip 20W Version Possible in 2009 • @200 developers working on Godson HW, @100 on SW and Compilers The University of Cape Town (South Africa) has a few modest projects but nothing approaching the scale of China, Russia or Israel. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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