You’d be surprised, mostly because the alternatives simply aren’t sold in the US or EU. SMIC is only 2-5 years behind Intel, and that gap is closing as Intel and AMD have stagnated. The others are a bit behind SMIC, but still entirely viable for the vast majority of use cases.
China is missing upper end consumer and data center chips so far, but that’s just a matter of time and investment, something a massive trade war would provide.
You’d be surprised, mostly because the alternatives simply aren’t sold in the US or EU. SMIC is only 2-5 years behind Intel, and that gap is closing as Intel and AMD have stagnated. The others are a bit behind SMIC, but still entirely viable for the vast majority of use cases.
China is missing upper end consumer and data center chips so far, but that’s just a matter of time and investment, something a massive trade war would provide.