The Chinese Government has announced a new policy to put an immediate ban on governmental devices that use AMD and Intel chips.
The Chinese government is also trying to completely stop the use of Windows OS, to make the locals adopt the Chinese-made technology.
The report said that new technology restrictions were applied on December 26, 2023. The Chinese companies have now agreed to use chips and software that are made in China rather than foreign-made database software or chips.
The Finance and IT Ministry of China (MIIT) has also redirected to the purchase of computers with the new “safe and reliable” guidelines when buying any software or computer.
These guidelines include 10 CPUs that MIIT has listed as “safe to purchase“, the list includes the chips from Huawei and Phytium, and both of these chips are on the block list of the United States.
The safe CPUs on the list are composed of Intel’s x86 ARM and the software is the variants of open-source Linux OS.
The List of Approved CPUs (Central Processing Unit):
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- Kunpeng 920
- Loongson 3C5000L
- Shenwei1621
- Loongson 3A4000/3B4000
- Loongson 3A5000/3B5000
- Shenwei SW421
- Shenwei 3231
- Feiteng Rui D2000
- Feiteng FT-2000
- Feiteng FT-2000+
- Pangu M900
- Feiteng Tengyun S2500
- Kirin 9006C
- Haiguang C86-3G
- Kirin 990
- Haiguang No. 2 C86 3230/3250/3280/5280/7250/7260/7280/7285
- Zhaoxin ZX-E KX-U6780A/KH-37800D/KX-6640MA/KX-6640A
- Zhaoxin ZX-D KX-U5580
The List of Approved OS (Operating System):
- Galaxy Kirin Desktop Operating System V10 (kernel version 5.4)
- Galaxy Kirin Advanced Server Operating System V10 (kernel version 4.19)
- Tongxin server operating system V20 (kernel version 4.19)
- Fangde high-trust server operating system V4.0 (kernel version 4.19)
- Fangde desktop operating system V3.1 (kernel version 4.9)
- Tongxin desktop operating system V20 (kernel version 4.19)
This move by China would surely shake up Intel and AMD’s revenue. China was the largest market in 2023 for Intel, totaling 27% of overall sales. While, for AMD, Chinese sales take up about 15% of its total revenue.
However, Microsoft is not so much reliant on China, with only 1.5% of total sales.
Intel and AMD chipsets will not get approved for use in China anymore. The chipmakers have to do extensive work with the Chinese government to be on their ‘safe to buy’ list. The major condition to be on that list is that the chip should be made in China, based on approved Chinese principles.