2024-04-24 13:55:55
The Chinese authorities are demanding that the largest telecommunications service providers stop using foreign processors, writes The Wall Street Journal, Day.Az reports with reference to Interfax.
According to the newspaper’s sources, the corresponding order was issued earlier this year by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China. The deadline for completing this process, set by the department, is 2027.
This decision by the Chinese authorities will hit American chip manufacturers Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), WSJ sources note. In recent years, these two companies have supplied the bulk of central processing units for use in networking equipment in China and around the world.
Chinese telecom operators China Mobile and China Telecom are key customers of Intel and AMD in China; they buy thousands of servers for their data centers, writes WSJ. These servers are necessary to ensure the interaction of telecommunications equipment with base stations and store mobile user data.
Earlier this year, it became known that Beijing is demanding that government agencies replace foreign technologies with local solutions, including a gradual phase-out of the use of American Intel and AMD chips in PCs and servers, as well as a gradual phase-out of the Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. and databases developed by foreign companies.