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Microsoft’s Windows and foreign database programs also sidelined as Beijing favours Chinese hardware and software

Among the 18 approved processors were chips from Huawei and state-backed group Phytium. Both are on Washington’s export blacklist. Chinese processor makers are using a mixture of chip architectures including Intel’s x86, Arm and homegrown ones, while operating systems are derived from open-source Linux software.

  • 7heo
    18•9 months ago

    Substantially. CISC vs RISC is night and day. Keeping x86 for so long was a mistake, but one that generated billions in value for shareholders.

    • BarqsHasBiteEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      If I can ask, if we go way back like 40 or 50 years ago, why did cisc get adopted over risc?

      • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble
        13•9 months ago

        Cisc was never adopted. It all started out basic, then they gradually added more and more shit until you had a complex CPU.

        Without the concept of risc there wouldn’t be a cisc.

      • 7heo
        7•9 months ago

        Additionally to the other answer: the reason CISC came up to be was “less instructions”. Memory was a lot more expensive, and developers worked in assembly a lot more. So, less instructions made a lot of sense. Now, memory is cheap, and developers almost never write assembly unassisted.