China Boosts in Silicon...
The global silicon arms race continues, so what does China have in hands concerning CPU architectures?
Accelerator - Matrix 2000 used in Tianhe-2 supercomputer
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/nudt/matrix-2000
Alpha - early ShenWei designs, maybe gen 1 to 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway_(processor)#History
ARM
From Huawei mobile chips, over Phytium desktop CPUs, to HiSilicon server chips there are many IP licensees.
IA64 (Itanium) - FeiTeng 1st gen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeiTeng_(processor)#Initial_designs
MIPS64 - Loongson/Godson CPU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
POWER(8/9) - Suzhou PowerCore CP1/CP2
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-technology-adopted-in-chinese-chips-servers-1426766402
RISC - Sunway ShenWei SW26010 with own ISA used in Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway_SW26010
RISC-V - Xuantie CPU by Alibaba
https://www.techspot.com/news/81177-china-alibaba-making-16-core-25-ghz-risc.html
SPARC - FeiTeng Galaxy FT-1500 CPU used in Tianhe-2 supercomputer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeiTeng_%28processor%29#Galaxy_FT-1500
x86-64 - THATIC, a joint venture with AMD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_venture
x86-64 - Zhaoxin, a joint venture with VIA
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