Welcome to 1995: China successfully clones a 1995 CPU

[Asher]

Ah, true enough. It wasn't successful though.

Sony had one a year after:


The first successful transistor radio was from Sony a year later:


Followed by:

[Dauphin]

$50. What's that in modern parlance. About as much as an iPod?

[JohnT]

Assuming a 4% average inflation rate, compounded annually, about $350.00.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Winston


I predict an awful lot of Solitude being played in China's "domestic consumer electronics market".

You mean Solitaire?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by MikeH
Being Canadian I assume you've seen what a glacier does to a valley...

... over millenia.

[Sandman]

Didn't a Chinese company buy up big chunks of IBM recently?

[Kuciwalker]

IBM sold its Thinkpad line to Lenovo, which was already manufacturing them for IBM anyway.

[Asher]

Lenovo bought IBM's PC business and moved its headquarters to New York and named an American as its CEO (a former IBM VP).

Primary design work will continue to be done in Raleigh, North Carolina like before.

[Kuciwalker]

[Winston]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


You mean Solitaire?

I mean Solitaire.

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Welcome to 1995: China successfully clones a 1995 CPU

Originally posted by Asher

I am not sure if they have something as powerful in the space shuttle...

[Asher]

You bring up a terrible, useless, perplexing point.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'd probably use another word than 'point'. It may give him the idea that he's done something good.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Asher

I had on of those.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
You bring up a terrible, useless, perplexing point.

In all likelihood, it went over your head like a fleet of UFOs.