Re:: culturecom - lese mal hier

verfasst von JoBar, 02.03.2004, 15:16

-->Das ganze scheint wieder so eine pump-and-dump Geschichte zu sein. Bei Transmeta gibt es keinen Hinweis auf eine"V-Dragon"-CPU oder auf einen OEM-Kunden"Culturecom"

Ich fand die Story auch unheimlich toll. Aber da hat wahrscheinlich nur ein Werbetexter sein Geld zu recht erhalten. Mit den jetzigen, nicht vorhandenen handfesten, Informationen scheint mir allergrößte Vorsicht angebracht zu sein!

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Quelle http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=23009&catid=1&subcat=8

Enter the V-Dragon
Guo Yiguang, 1-Mar-2004

Beijing: A Hong Kong-based company that began as a comic book publisher now promises to revolutionise the Chinese PC market with its new Linux-based, Chinese language CPU.


Culturecom Holdings says its new V-Dragon CPU, which retails for only US$15 to US$30, will reduce the price of PCs and appliances by anywhere from 50% to 70%, mostly by eliminating costly intellectual property fees charged by “Wintel”—Microsoft and Intel—for their operating systems and CPUs.

Co-developed by IBM and based on the Midori Linux operating system, the new V-Dragon architecture aims specifically for the Greater China market with an embedded dynamic Chinese character generating engine, allowing direct use of 32,000 Chinese characters without additional font sets or Chinese language peripherals.

“The V-Dragon is not only the first Chinese CPU—it’s also the first Linux-based CPU,” Culturecom senior vice-president Benjamin Lau told ACW.

Midori Linux is a flexible OS, and is the only Linux OS whose design team “was led by Linus Torvalds himself”, Lau added, referring to Linux’s creator.

Culturecom acquired rights to Midori Linux from US-based company Transmeta.

In the last year, the Chinese government has thrown its weight behind the open-source Linux operating system out of concern that Microsoft and Intel have formed a virtual cartel.

Beijing has joined Tokyo and Seoul in exploring the development of open source alternatives to the Windows operating system.

Culturecom has already profited from the Chinese government’s pro-Linux bias.

RedOffice 2000, a Linux-based productivity suite co-developed by Culturecom and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was selected for use by the Beijing Municipal Government.

“Getting out of the Wintel environment, we can offer this CPU for much, much cheaper. Not only do we avoid intellectual property fees, but we also reduce costs because many interfaces are already built into the chip,” Lau said. “Chinese-made PCs aren’t selling well internationally because these costs prevent them from being competitive.”

Lau said that Culturecom forecasts shipments this year of between 1.5 and 2 million units. Most are for intelligent appliances (IA) such as smart DVD players, or for special-purpose terminals like the tax terminals that Chinese equipment vendor Datang is building, and for which they have ordered 300,000 V-Dragon CPUs.

Critics have suggested that the Chinese CPU’s speed is prohibitively slow, but Lau disagrees.

“The V-Dragon CPU offers speeds anywhere from 400MHz to 1.4GHz,” he said.

“For Datang’s tax terminals, for example, they only need 400MHz processors. Some of our customers want faster CPUs, and we can meet that need.”

In a market where PC penetration remains extremely low—13.3 million PCs were sold in 2003 in a country with a population of 1.3 billion—Culturecom is hoping that its low-cost CPUs will help to bridge the gaping “digital divide.”

Simple desktop computers powered by V-Dragon CPUs and sufficient to browse the Internet would cost as little as US $200.

“We can serve the mass population of China,” said Lau. “The vast rural population desperately needs access to affordable IT.”

Microsoft and Intel failed to respond to our queries by press time. Unofficial sources within the companies told ACW that they have never heard of Culturecom or its V-Dragon CPU.

Analysts interviewed do not have concrete views of the CPU yet, as it is still very new.

“We’re not following this CPU right now because it’s mostly used in intelligent appliances and hasn’t had PC applications that we know of to date,” said IDC Beijing’s Lily Qing.

Dorothy Lai, principal analyst, Semiconductors APAC, Gartner, said Culturecom targets accounting and administration type customised computers. She thinks Chinese chips will continue to cater to such specialised sectors.

“I don’t think these types of Chinese-made products will have a very strong impact on Intel. It is quite hard to compete with Intel in the PC chip sector—even AMD’s path is not easy. Also, the Chinese government is quite supportive of Intel,” she said.

Grüße

J

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