Xiaofan,

   How is the development of MCU and CPU development
in China? I am refering to a chinese company only. Is
it still far off? Just wondering whether they can make
it.

thanks,
john

--- Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/28/06, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > >folks at YellowSheepRiver in China
> >
> > Sounds a bit like Blue Cow Mountain in Australia
> ...
> >
> > Guess it is a transliteration of a Chinese company
> name.
> >
> 
> http://yellowsheepriver.org/company.html
> http://www.yellowsheepriver.com
> 
> I believe these two companies are related.
> 
> Yellow Sheep River is a place in western China. The
> Chinese Name is
> Huang2 (yellow color) Yang2 (sheep) Chuan (river).
> yellowsheepriver.com
> is a company funded by a late businessman (former
> group CEO of
> Inventech http://www.inventec.com) which aims to
> bring the information
> technology to the poor western China like Yellow
> Sheep River Town.
> 
> If you look into the detail of the technical
> specifications of the
> $US150 PC, it is not cheap afer all. There is no
> monitor, the
> optical drive is an optional. A low end Via or even
> AMD Sempron
> based Linux solution will be actaully cheaper and
> better.
> 
> There are some sense of national pride involved here
> since it is
> using the Godson II CPU developed in China (kind of
> MIPS clone).
> However I do not really think that this will be a
> huge success given
> that large companies (therfore big investors) like
> Microsoft and Intel
> are better friends of Chinese government than some
> idealistic program
> like MIT US$100 laptop.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Xiaofan
> 
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