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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by lallysingh on Monday June 20, 2016 @08:49AM (#11937609)
AFAIK, Chinese CPUs are MIPS and Alpha based. Both run Linux well.
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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by ams6110 on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:31AM (#11938252)
This post has a little more detail about the processors:

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/20/look-inside-chinas-ch...

Summary, it's a RISC architecture that resembles an Alpha but it's not a straight-up copy.

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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by Brybry on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:26PM (#11940640)
I wonder what the process node size of SW26010 is and if the chips were actually manufactured in China or if they were manufactured by TSMC/Taiwan.

I wasn't aware that China had competitive fabrication plants for processors. If they don't and they built these at say 40 or 45nm then wouldn't this design performance be even more impressive?

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