[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Dirk Munk]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<4f9ac1a4$0$6893$e4fe514c at news2.news.xs4all.nl>, MG<marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl>  writes:
>> On 27-4-2012 17:11, Rich Jordan wrote:
>>> Reportedly China is considering a 'national' CPU architecture (ISA at
>>> least) decision for all government funded projects.
>>
>> Weren't they looking into MIPS already a year or two ago?  At the time,
>> I believe it was misreported and gave the wrong impression, that they
>> were looking into Alpha.  However, this article claims --- on top of
>> those --- that they're looking into POWER, ARM and this "UPU" thing as
>> well.  Now I don't know what to believe.
>
> Well, unless they resurrect Alpha, they're hedging their bets on a dead
> horse.  However, it is nice to see the SPARC is not in contention.
>

Well that would be a joke. I remember there were roadmaps up till EV12. 
Just imagine the Chinese turning up with somethinng like an Alpha EV12 
cpu. HP might buy them to replace Itanium :-) .