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China Blocks Use of Intel and AMD Chips in Government Computers

posted by hubie on Monday April 01 2024, @09:03PM   
from the you-can-go-your-own-way-and-call-it-another-lonely-day dept.

upstart writes:

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers, FT reports By Reuters:

(Reuters) -China has introduced guidelines to phase out U.S. microprocessors from Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) from government personal computers and servers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

The procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options, the report said.

Government agencies above the township level have been told to include criteria requiring "safe and reliable" processors and operating systems when making purchases, the newspaper said.

China's industry ministry in late December issued a statement with three separate lists of CPUs, operating systems and centralised database deemed "safe and reliable" for three years after the publication date, all from Chinese companies, Reuters checks showed.

[...] The U.S. has been aiming to boost domestic semiconductor output and reduce reliance on China and Taiwan with the Biden administration's 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.

It is designed to bolster U.S. semiconductors and contains financial aid for domestic production with subsidies for production of advanced chips.

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• Re:If only the West could do the same Re:If only the West could do the same (Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Tuesday April 02 2024, @05:06PM (2 children)

  by turgid (4318) on Tuesday April 02 2024, @05:06PM (#1351371) Journal

  RISC V will dominate eventually, in the same way that Linux eventually dominated the unix market.

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• Re:If only the West could do the same Re:If only the West could do the same (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday April 02 2024, @06:44PM (1 child)

  by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Tuesday April 02 2024, @06:44PM (#1351392) Journal

  RISC-V/64 trembles under load. I am not happy about that.

  One dubious factor is under-engineered coherency and either insufficiency or total lack of atomic primitives, depending on realized core.
  That affects existing ported code badly, things which work perfectly under RV64 software emulator hosted on amd64 crash badly on real RV64 hardware.

  So, it is somewhere where Athlon64 has been in early 2000's. RISC-V need 20 years more to mature, I am afraid.

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  • Re:If only the West could do the same (Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Tuesday April 02 2024, @08:32PM

    by turgid (4318) on Tuesday April 02 2024, @08:32PM (#1351405) Journal

    It will mature. "Linux is a bathtub of code."

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