[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[John Wallace]

On Apr 27, 4:11 pm, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
> Reportedly China is considering a 'national' CPU architecture (ISA at
> least) decision for all government funded projects.
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/computing/127791-china-plans-national-unif...
>
> "There are at least five existing ISAs on the table for consideration
> — MIPS, Alpha, ARM, Power, and the homegrown UPU — but the Chinese
> leadership has also mooted the idea of defining an entirely new
> architecture."

This will be the same Extremetech and the same writer that in a
similar article last November [1] made the rather unusual assertion
that Loongson was Alpha based, whereas common industry consensus is
that Loongson is MIPS based, right?

"The ShenWei chips are based on the Loongson/Godson architecture,
which China — as in, the country itself — has been steadily developing
since 2001. It is believed that the Loongson family of processors,
including the ShenWei SW-3 found in Sunway, were created by reverse
engineering a DEC Alpha CPU."

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/102461-east-vs-west-china-builds-record-breaking-homegrown-supercomputer