$125.00 PC, coming in June

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
Date: March 20, 2006 1:01:49 AM EST
To: Dave <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: $125.00 PC, coming in June

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Monday, March 20, 2006 at 12:00 AM EST
Publish Date : 3/17/2006 2:09:00 PM   Source : Technology News
Onlypunjab.com



A Chinese company has claimed to have developed the nation's first
low-cost computer priced at 125 US dollars, using an indigenous central
processing unit and the new product will hit the market in June, a
report said today.

Costing around 1,000 yuan (125 U.S. Dollars), the low-cost computer uses
a Chinese-made Godson II CPU.

"We hope everyone can afford our computers," said Zhang Fuxin, an expert
of the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) under the Chinese Academy
of Sciences in charge of developing "Longmeng" computers.

Last year, a leading US IT expert Nicholas Negroponte proposed a
100-dollar laptop for the "One Laptop per Child" project. The prototype
was unveiled by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Negroponte in
November, Xinhua news agency reported.

The performance of Longmeng, or Dragon Dream, is equivalent to a 1G
Pentium III desktop, according to Zhang. It is a computer, a DVD player
and also a video game player.

The computer, equipped with standard PC accessories, is portable as it
is the size of a textbook and weighs 500 grams.

In September 2002, the ICT manufactured the first Chinese-made CPUs,
coded Godson I.

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