China issues guidelines to phase out use of Intel and AMD chips, Windows operating systems and foreign centralized database systems in government computers.
According to this article China makes up 27% of Intel's revenue (its SINGLE biggest market) and 15% of AMD's revenue (its third largest). Will be interesting to see how badly this will affect the bottom line of both companies in the coming years.
Considering the US already bans Nvidia and AMD from selling their high-end GPUs to China, this ban was going to happen sooner or later. China just decided to pre-emptively do it so they can plan ahead for the phase-out as opposed to being caught off guard.
China leading a potential Linux revolution on the global tech industry would be glorious to see.