Actually a lot of people in China also agree they should joint the CPU battle since this year. In China, there was always an ongoing debate on if we should des

Actually a lot of people in China also agree they should joint the CPU battle since this year. In China, there was always an ongoing debate on if we should design our own chip for quite a while. From the economical perspective, there's no point in making our own because it would cost a lot, for the first few years there would be no profit, and the very likely not cheap to produce while not as fast as Intel and Qualcomm. From a risk management perspective, of course, it's useful if China was sanctioned. Actually, there were several attempts many years ago, and the government invested in those projects. Eventually, people called out those are frauds because they just re-label existing chips from those well-known brands without doing anything. After several times of this kind of scandal, people started to lose trust and faith in this, and the debate died down for quite a while, until now. While a lot of people in the US are debating if they should bring critical industries back to the US this year, Chinese people brought back the debate about if they should develop their own chip almost as soon as Huawei was listed on the 'entity list'. This time more people seem to agree that they should have their own chips, and many people even think it as a threat to the Chinese nation because it seems to be one throat to choke (China become more or less a nationalist country during the suffering century of humiliation, plus some communist legacy, thus the sense of crisis and the reaction). It says that Huawei is already starting to build its own chips. My personal guess is the government would strategically invest resources in this field as well because it just seems to be too important.