It has been reported that China has issued guidelines restricting the usage of American chips and software in government office PCs. Nevertheless, evaluation suggests that the likelihood of replacing Intel or AMD with Chinese CPUs remains to be low.

On the twenty fifth (local time), the Financial Times and Tom's Hardware cited guidelines released by China's Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in December last yr, regularly encouraging PC hardware and software from U.S. corporations equivalent to Intel, AMD, and Microsoft (MS) to be sold locally. It was reported that measures were taken to interchange it with another.

As a substitute, it approved 18 processors, including Loongson and Phytium, that were on the US blacklist. State-owned enterprises have also issued guidelines to change to local production options by 2027.

China has been working to scale back its dependence on foreign technology over the past few years. In 2022, central government agencies and state-owned enterprises were ordered to interchange foreign brand personal computers with domestically produced alternative computers inside two years. Also, at the tip of last yr, there have been rumors that measures were taken to ban the usage of iPhones at work.

For this reason, Intel's stock price fell by 2.9% and AMD's stock price fell by lower than 1% within the Recent York stock market on this present day. MS also fell to 1.4%.

Nevertheless, Toms Hardware predicted that China's plan wouldn’t be easy. It was predicted that developing a CPU at the extent of current Intel or AMD would require investing billions of dollars in R&D, and that it might take an unlimited period of time to change into completely self-sufficient.

Particularly, even within the case of reverse engineering, which analyzes foreign chips, production facilities and equipment ultimately rely on overseas sources. Currently, China's CPU is evaluated to be six years behind america.

Alternatively, america is taking the lead by recently investing $19.5 billion (about 26 trillion won) in subsidies to Intel and supporting the development of large-scale factories.

Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com