China Readies First Multicore Godson Cpus

摘要

Chinese researchers are preparing the first multi-core versions of Godson, the country's first homegrown microprocessor, with four- and eight-core designs due to tape out in the coming months. China hopes to build a petaflops high-performance computer based on the Godson-3 in 2010. The four-core version of the Godson-3 is scheduled to tape out before the end of the year, and tapeout of the eight-core version is planned for 2009, according to Zhiwei Xu, deputy directory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology, who presented a paper on the Godson-3 architecture at the Hot Chips conference Aug. 26.