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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the will-they-smell-fresh? dept.

Move over, Qualcomm and MediaTek. Here comes Xiaomi:

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal , Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi is looking to join the ranks of Apple, Samsung, and Huawei by developing its own smartphone chips. The report says the move is part of "aspirations to join the top tier" of smartphone manufacturers and an attempt to stand out from the slew of other OEMs.

For now, Xiaomi's processor is apparently called "Pinecone," and it will be released "within a month" according to the report. This might be talking about the processor of the Xiaomi Mi 6, which, if Xiaomi keeps to the usual yearly release cycle, should be out sometime in March. Xiaomi's chip design division isn't coming from nowhere—using a shell company called "Beijing Pinecone Electronics," Xiaomi paid $15 million to acquire mobile processor technology from Datang subsidiary Leadcore Technology Ltd.

Also at TechCrunch and Engadget.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @03:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @03:57PM (#466173)

    really i don't understand.
    there's like 3 different "chinese". they cannot talk to each other but they seem to be able to write to each other (using the same written down characters)
    so if chinese language number ONE reads some chinese characters they vocalize it differently then if chinese language number TWO vocalizes the same characters ... now the insanity is ported into latin characters?

    i mean, sure every 5th person is a chinese but if they want me to SPELL the name of "chinese company no. 678 that makes mobile phones with a Caucasian CEO and on only sells stuff on the internet" i will write "SHOW-ME" and surely NOT xiomi -or- xiaomi.
    1-in-5 is ALOT but it's not a majority to nuke how i read latin characters, thank you.

    maybe it's a indication of quality. they spell as good as they copy? (hint: badly)

    anyways, what should get your panties tied-up in a knot, shouldn't be some completely exposed sand dunes in the pacific ocean
      but rather the slow and steady erosion of latin alphabet and its sounds because the best way to conquer your enemy is subtly
      and subversively by taking away his written language, because like even indiana johns dad knows "the pen is mightier then the sword".

    once your dubious enemies kow-tow to the promised profits, you jank the carpet and they are left in between cultural borders: on one side the united chinese front and on the other the homeland culture you have crossed for capitalistic profit once too much:
    beware the chinese baring gifts!

  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:28PM

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:28PM (#466188) Journal
    "there's like 3 different "chinese". they cannot talk to each other"

    More like 7 actually but in this day and age virtually everyone in China speaks passable Mandarin, so they can actually talk to each other just fine. It's true many speak e.g. Cantonese at home instead, and have to consciously switch to Mandarin, maybe speak it with a touch of an accent, but the level of competency is nonetheless very high because Mandarin is used for all official business and has been for generations.

    "but they seem to be able to write to each other (using the same written down characters)"

    Mostly true.

    "so if chinese language number ONE reads some chinese characters they vocalize it differently then if chinese language number TWO vocalizes the same characters ... "

    Sure that can happen. The character for forest, for instance, is 3 trees iirc, and pronounced 'lin' (with a tone I forget) in mandarin but 'rin' (with a different tone I forget) in Cantonese. They're still pretty close (the tonal difference is bigger than the l-r alteration, and both are regular, so they have the character of an 'accent' - sort of.)

    "now the insanity is ported into latin characters?"

    It can be but pinyin is almost always used to write mandarin rather than something else. In fact, it's mostly used for *teaching* mandarin in my experience. Adult literature is printed exclusively in hanji (characters.)

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:03PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:03PM (#466222)

    the slow and steady erosion of Latin alphabet and its sounds

    The problem is that X has no agreed-upon western-wide pronunciation. Originally, the Roman/Greek pronunciation was like how the Scots pronounce ch "Loch Ness Monster" or how the Mexicans pronounce j in "Jesus". Since western lower class Romans had problems pronouncing that consonant - much like modern English speakers do - it all went down hill from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X#Other_languages [wikipedia.org]

    Nowadays, whenever someone tries systematically writing a foreign language using Latin alphabet, X is used rather liberally for missing sounds or just instead of very common digraphs (sh here).

    Regardless, English speakers are already used to memorizing the correct pronunciation of borrowed words (http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/these-30-words-are-always-mispronounced.html). So, if this is some sort of conspiracy, it's been going on for the better part of a 1000 years and it failed.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @09:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @09:14PM (#466301)

    but rather the slow and steady erosion of latin alphabet and its sounds because the best way to conquer your enemy is subtly
        and subversively by taking away his written language, because like even indiana johns dad knows "the pen is mightier then the sword".

    once your dubious enemies kow-tow to the promised profits, you jank the carpet and they are left in between cultural borders: on one side the united chinese front and on the other the homeland culture you have crossed for capitalistic profit once too much:
    beware the chinese baring gifts!

    Looks like the damage has already been done, and none too subtly.