China Shuns Foreign Chips, Servers From Government PCs: FT
- Intel, AMD chips and Microsoft software to be phased out
- Guidelines were unveiled in December, newspaper says
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China has adopted new guidance to limit the use of US-made microprocessors and servers in government computers, the Financial Times reported.
The rules mean that chips made by US firms Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will be gradually replaced with local alternatives, the newspaper reported, citing guidelines unveiled by the finance ministry and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Dec. 26.