The CPU research and development was conducted by the Beijing University Micro-processor Research and Development Center (MPRC). The lead scientist of the project, Prof. Cheng Xu said that all the CPUs developed by his team were made up of a minimum of 8 million transistors, making them the largest of their kind ever designed in China.
The intellectual property of key hardware and software technologies is owned by Prof Cheng and his team. The Chinese government has been pushing rapid local development of technology to avoid foreign royalties and eventually create internationally competitive high-tech intellectual property.
Xinhua, a Chinese news wire, reported that a Chinese national expert team had evaluated the project's products, named "MPRC-863 CPU" as safe, reliable and highly cost-effective.
Another academic, Prof. Yan Xiolang, who co-ordinates national research and development on integrated circuit design, said that the government's heavy investment in the field will boost the industry and attract talent.
Several other universities and research organizations are developing Chinese-designed CPU products, Xinhua reported, adding that unspecified research had estimated that China would be the second largest integrated circuit consumer in the world by 2020, only behind the United States, and that China's current policy is to make the country the second largest producer of integrated circuits as well.
Prof. Yan told Xinhua that China still had a long way to go.
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