When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It All

Re:When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It... by itchyouch on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:35PM (#12219843)

They are running in startup mode. Things can be done very quickly as long as red tape doesn't hinder the speed of development. With having experience building everything for everyone, it's not surprising that they can build very quickly.

They have ridiculous manpower at their factories working 24/7 to make billions of phones, utilizing that type of experience to fabricate couple hundreds of thousands of chips to build a super computer can probably take a couple of months. Assembly is probably another couple months and getting the software in order is probably another couple of months.

Now if it was a US gov't contract, it would probably take a decade...

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Re:When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It... by walrus01 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:47PM (#12219940)

If they want to do it very inefficiently, and have near infinite sums of money to throw at it, yes.

China does not have semiconductor fabs capable of producing anything close to a current generation Intel 14nm process Core i7 or Xeon CPU.

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