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China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers (www.ft.com)

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Microsoft’s Windows and foreign database programs also sidelined as Beijing favours Chinese hardware and software

Among the 18 approved processors were chips from Huawei and state-backed group Phytium. Both are on Washington’s export blacklist. Chinese processor makers are using a mixture of chip architectures including Intel’s x86, Arm and homegrown ones, while operating systems are derived from open-source Linux software.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

This could be a good thing. The monopoly Microsoft and the x86 architecture have had on computing has hampered new development for decades.

China is experimenting with different architectures and open source OS’s. It’ll be very interesting to see where this leads.