Another element that's being added to the mix is security. From a country's perspective, open cores and and control on chip design is valuable here. And that's

Another element that's being added to the mix is security. From a country's perspective, open cores and and control on chip design is valuable here. And that's exactly what the Chinese government is doing: "encouraging" their private sector to move away from intel's architecture to IBM's open power (and they'll probably won't mind an open ARM). And who knoww, maybe later we'll see other countries shift to that kind of strategy.