Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ...
by wmf on Friday June 22, 2012 @01:39PM
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I am happy that the Chinese invest this much in Linux. This obviously motivates big hardware makers to release quality/OS drivers for their products, and in the end I benefit from that as well.
I don't see this happening. We're now seeing Chinese SoCs built from western IP cores (e.g. Allwinner) and soon there will be all-Chinese chips. They don't bother to write any English documentation and they just throw barely-working, uncommented drivers over the wall, never bothering to participate in upstream development at all. (Note that this is only marginally worse than traditional western embedded development, so I'm not really criticizing the Chinese electronics industry.)
I don't see this happening. We're now seeing Chinese SoCs built from western IP cores (e.g. Allwinner) and soon there will be all-Chinese chips. They don't bother to write any English documentation and they just throw barely-working, uncommented drivers over the wall, never bothering to participate in upstream development at all. (Note that this is only marginally worse than traditional western embedded development, so I'm not really criticizing the Chinese electronics industry.)