China to market advanced CPU
Published: 10 Dec 2003 11:10 GMT
A senior science official from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology announced on Monday that the first of 12 high-tech projects pushed by the government had come to market with an advanced central processor unit (CPU).
The CPU research and development was conducted by the Beijing University Micro-processor Research and Development Centre (MPRC). The lead scientist of the project, Professor Cheng Xu, said that all the CPUs developed by his team were made up of a minimum of 8 million transistors, making them the largest of their kind ever designed in China.
The intellectual property of key hardware and software technologies is owned by Prof Cheng and his team. The Chinese government has been pushing rapid local development of technology to avoid foreign royalties and with the aim of creating an internationally competitive high-tech intellectual property.
Xinhua, a Chinese news wire, reported that a Chinese national expert team had evaluated the project's products, named "MPRC-863 CPU" as safe, reliable and highly cost-effective.
Another academic, Prof Yan Xiolang, who co-ordinates national research and development on integrated circuit design, said that the government's heavy investment in the field will boost the industry and attract talent.
Several other universities and research organisations are developing Chinese-designed CPU products, Xinhua reported, adding that unspecified research had estimated that China would be the second-largest integrated circuit consumer in the world by 2020, behind only the United States, and that China's current policy is to make the country the second largest producer of integrated circuits as well.
Prof Yan told Xinhua that China still had a long way to go.
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