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Re:Is it time for open processors? by qznc on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:40AM (#16185495)
Russia has the Baikal CPU based on MIPS.

China has Loongson also MIPS.

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by hajile on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:40PM (#16188572)
China is invested in almost everything. Phytium or Rockchip for ARM (large and small respectively). FeiTeng Galaxy FT-1500 runs openSPARC. ShenWei Sunway series runs Alpha. Suzhou PowerCore runs openPOWER. I can only imagine they have a bunch of work going into RISCV too.
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Re:Is it time for open processors? by walterbell on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:05AM (#16185577)
Can either be purchased online by customers outside of those countries?
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Re:Is it time for open processors? by lambda on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:32AM (#16186029)
You used to be able to buy Lemote Yeeloong notebooks, which in addition to having Loongsong processors had completely free software BIOS, making them one of the only RMS approved pieces of hardware. But I'm not seeing those readily available any longer.
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Re:Is it time for open processors? by justincormack on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:51AM (#16186141)
I believe you can still get them but its not as easy.
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