China's Lemote technology has started testing PCs based on the country's latest home-grown CPU.
The company has cranked out 80 machines running on the Godson II E processor, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences as part of a broad effort to boost the country's technology industry and make it less reliant on foreign suppliers.
Godson II E PCs will run Linux, come with 256MB of memory and a 40GB hard drive and sell for the equivalent of $200 (without monitor, keyboard or mouse). Lemote hopes to have a thousand on the market by next month.
Computers with home-grown CPU debut on Chinese market[People's Daily]
