China initiated new guidelines that prohibit CPUs made by Intel and AMD for government PCs and servers. Instead, it has approved 18 processors made by Loongson and Phytium make, which the United States blacklists.
This is part of China's nationwide strategy to rely more on its homegrown options as a response to US sanctions, which have blocked many items from China. The Chinese Finance Ministry and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released this guidance late last year, on December 26. State-owned companies were also informed to do the same where the transition towards locally made options should be completed by 2027.
