Re:Notes on Red Star OS 3.0
by drzaiusapelord on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:18PM
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ARM isn't Chinese IP. Its not theirs, its licensed from ARM Holdings which is a UK company.
Android is a American open source project. That's not chinese either and they sure as hell can't just get off Windows for Android, yet, if ever. They need a usable desktop OS.
No one is doubting their ability to copy and refine in a limited fashion, but their homegrown attempts have all been massive failures.
> ARM isn't Chinese IP. Its not theirs, its licensed from ARM Holdings which is a UK company.
The CPU is only one very small part of a chipset. The overall SoC is far more important.
And of course any company that has an Architectural Licence just has to make something that is compatible with ARM. (Although I don't see any of the lower cost SoC manufactures doing this anytime soon!)
I wouldn't say that. I would say that the Chinese Government has allowed the free market to take over this task. Take a look at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chinese-arm-soc-mediatek... all high quality ARM SOCs from Chinese suppliers.
Likewise, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIUI is a fork of Android that reportedly runs faster than Google's stock shell. (I have seen an old version in action on Android 2.2, it was fast, really fast, from what I have read newer versions are just as zippy) Xiaomi has also built up a complete separate (successful!) ecosystem outside Google's, something that Amazon has tried and failed to do.
In another few years you are going to have a Chinese controlled mobile OS being used throughout the Asia Pacific region, running on hardware designed by Chinese companies.