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.
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.
Chips cold war? Doesn’t sound too bad if we got to see more competition
Will be very interesting in the 2030s when speculative execution attacks that CN systems are completely immune to start to appear.
That does not mean they are immune. There will be likely immune to the same affecting amd or intel CPUs but not to speculative execution bugs in general.
Every CPU that uses speculative execution (so basically every modern CPU) is potentially vulnerable to those kinds of attacks.
Every technology that China invests in developing for themselves has ultimately improved access to that tech in the global south beyond anything the west has done. Solar and smart phones being the first two examples with high speed rail coming along too. This will likely follow a similar process. I’m excited to see where this leads.
