Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 128.195.52.116]
on December 18, 2007 07:20 AM
i have been keeping track of the loongson chip for some time. the license issues in the article is unclear and somehow misleading. the patents of mips16 have already expired, so it doesn't make sense for ICT to pay for it anyway. also ICT added several instructions to enhance the mips' ability in multimedia processing. after cross-licensing with ST, ICT officially now implemented several other patented mips32 instructions and claim the chip to be "mips compatible". they are all within the boundary of rules and no foul play or whatsoever.
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China puts hopes in Loongson CPU
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 128.195.52.116] on December 18, 2007 07:20 AM#