http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/07/ch ... more-22794
China is also making significant progress in microprocessors to the point where it would not be dependent on US firms like Intel,AMD etc.Early in October, China revealed that they have developed the world’s fastest supercomputer at their National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin. Known as the Tianhe-1A, the machine is capable of a remarkable 2.5 petaflops. That’s 2.5 thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Impressive to say the least and more than 40% faster than Jaguar, the current leading supercomputer in the US (according to Top500.org). Tianhe-1A follows a new kind of architecture, relying as much on graphics cards (from Nvidia) as it does on traditional CPUs (from Intel). While the major processing components of the Chinese supercomputer are all from the United States, the software and hardware that allows those chips to talk to each other efficiently was developed in China. What does China’s occupation of the top spot in computing mean for the world? Depends on Congress. The last time that a nation surpassed the US in supercomputing (Japan with Earth Simulator) funding was found to propel the US back to the top. With the economy still in trouble it’s unclear whether China’s supercomputer success will rally US research, or serve as the beginning for a long era of Chinese dominance.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26596/
Check out both the articles.Forget Artillery,Tanks and missiles.Progress in such fields will go a long way in advancing their military capabilities.At this year's Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, Weiwu Hu, the lead architect of the "national processor" of China, revealed three new chip designs. One of them could enable China to build a homegrown supercomputer to rank in a prestigious list of the world's fastest machines.
The Loongson processor family (known in China by the name Godson), is now in its sixth generation. The latest designs consist of the one-gigahertz, eight-core Godson 3B, the more powerful 16-core, Godson 3C (with a speed that is currently unknown), and the smaller, lower-power one-gigahertz Godson 2H, intended for netbooks and other mobile devices. The Godson 3B will be commercially available in 2011, as will the Godson 2H, but the Godson 3C won't debut until 2012.
According to Tom Halfhill, industry analyst and editor of Microprocessor Report, the eight-core Godson 3B will still be significantly less powerful than Intel's best chip, the six-core Xeon processor. It will be able to perform roughly 30 percent fewer mathematical calculations per second. Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge processor and AMD's Bulldozer processor will widen the gap between chips designed by American companies and the Godson 3B.
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It might be easy for khan to fade out, if he feels he is a master swordsmith. We might have to go along with that self-assessment for another few decades, if we want to take the reigns of khan's systems at a later stage in a **non-disruptive manner**. We dont want to reinvent anything that khan already did, just take over and IPL-ize it. A prudent choice that PLA's H&D wont allow them to explore. They see a gweilo CVN in every flat top and keeps wasting money, instead of acquiring one over board and be done with that itch. This is like India struggling for a pace bowler, when we could have easily "acquired" an aussie or a windies by showing the money. Fortunately we are over that H&D phase in cricket and elsewhere 
You got it all wrong. They punished the guy for not sharing the Mamool he took on the deal made by the CCP, and finally spared his life when he gave it back to the CCP thugs. 
.The weapons and radar fitouts means this thing is much closer to sea trials than thought before.
