>"All of the world’s major superpowers have a vested interest in building their own custom silicon processors. The vital ingredient to this allows the superpowe

>"All of the world’s major superpowers have a vested interest in building their own custom silicon processors. The vital ingredient to this allows the superpower to wean itself off of US-based processors, guarantee there are no supplemental backdoors, and if needed add their own." Any major company that deals in anything Internet, Web or Cloud related -- also has a "vested interest in building their own custom silicon processors", for exactly this reason -- security. Some have realized this (Apple, Google, etc.), and have the resources to do this. Others have realized this and do not have the resources to do this (smaller companies). Still others have not realized this yet (thinking that software virus protection will solve problems which are in hardware), and are still in the process of waking up. Prediction: We're going to see a lot of new CPUs and CPU designs by many players in the next 20 years...