China government officials kicked off a program last month that aims to define a national processor architecture. If the initiative is successful, the processor could become a requirement for use in any projects seeking government funding such as purchases of computers or smartphones.
At least five existing processor architectures are up for consideration as the basis of the standard. The initiative also could be used to define its own instruction set architecture or extend an existing one.
Officials of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology hosted the first meeting of the so-called China National Instruction Set Architecture initiative in March. Representatives of about 20 China organizations attended the meeting, including communications giants Huawei and ZTE as well as a number of academic groups.
It seems Intel, AMD and ARM will have more challenges to contend. Do you know what it will mean to compete against the Dragon? If China stops patronizing these companies, it will simply mean that a new world of competition in the industry is born.
Respect these Chinese politicians – they are very efficient and can plan anything just to keep China competitive. When will Nigerian politicians get to that level?
this looks more like a research thing.
many chinese made products actually rely on lots of (hardware) IPs and software from other countries (US, japan, taiwan, korea) which are designed for existing cpu architectures (primarily arm).
it is still a long way from the time china can develop the expertise and ecosystem needed to support a custom processor architecture that can succeed commercially.
“When will Nigerian politicians get to that level?” That remains huge challenge. Or may be comments made by Prof. Wole Soyinka sometimes last year about Nigeria oil might probably answer that.
China is technically matured and fully ready for this. We have to also bear in mind that, they have the capability to do so in terms of materials and human resources. Research thing? Infact we should expect this to happen in a jiffy .