By Ben King, 16 October 2001 17:20
NEWS Chinese scientists have developed a prototype for the country's first ever processor chip. The Godson chip, roughly equivalent in power to Intel's 486 processors, was developed by Professor Tang Zhimin of the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), according to China's official Xinhua news agency. The chip runs on Red Flag Linux, the CAS's own version of the Linux operating system, and cost $1.2m to build. The chip is part of a project to make China less dependent on imported computer hardware. A processor with the power of a Pentium II is planned for next year.
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