“A Hong Kong-based company that began as a comic-book publisher now promises to revolutionize the Chinese personal-computer (PC) market with its new, low-cost, Linux-based, Chinese-language central processing unit (CPU).
Culturecom Holdings Ltd says its new V-Dragon CPU, which retails for only US$15-$30, will reduce the price of PCs and appliances by anywhere from 50-70 percent, mostly by eliminating costly intellectual-property (IP) fees charged by “Wintel” – Microsoft and Intel -for their operating systems and CPUs.”
The full article is here.
© Xiao Qiang for China Digital Times (CDT), 2004. |
Permalink |
No comment |
Add to
del.icio.us
Post tags: Linux, technology regulations
Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall