> I can see China running with ARM and POWER, ditching Intel entirely. China has Zhaoxin, which develops domestic x86-compatible cores that have received massi

> I can see China running with ARM and POWER, ditching Intel entirely. China has Zhaoxin, which develops domestic x86-compatible cores that have received massive state funding, despite little commercial success. They way it looks, I think that China has decided to stick with x86, with Zhaoxin as an "escape valve" for the case where chip supply from Intel and AMD gets threatened.