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> China tried to create a homegrown CPU 15-20 years ago with their MIPS variant but that died out.

Er, are you talking about LoongArch? The CPU line that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson lists new models of this year?



Yes, I had no idea they were still working on it.

You could buy their products in west as a sort of a low-power PC for a short while, but I think once netbooks arrived those just vanished.


Presumably 100% of supply at this point is going into chinese government/military projects where not using a western design with possible backdoors is worth a price premium.




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