The OpenPower alliance has some Chinese companies who develop chips and servers using the IBM IP, and there would be servers released at Q2-2015. And the Chines

The OpenPower alliance has some Chinese companies who develop chips and servers using the IBM IP, and there would be servers released at Q2-2015. And the Chinese government is encouraging Chinese companies to use that architecture. This current move might deter the Chinese from using the OpenPower and counting on that design, because it might have similar restrictions in the future, although it's hard to tell how big of an impact such restrictions would have on IP. And on the other hand, in the context of the Chinese computing shift, the u.s. or intel don't really lose much from this move. BTW: Could china seriously compete(and take large shares) in the cloud/hosting businesses using servers installed in china, assuming hw and power is cheaper,given the latency limitation ?