People’s Processor: Embrace China’s Homegrown Computer Chips from Wired Magazine.

This makes more sense now...

China Blocks Tech Imports with New Rule

And the fact that PC's have become so powerful, that you don't need the latest and greatest processor to run them (Vista was an exception, but if your using Linux and/or Windows XP).

Basically China is trying to make it so it does not need to import foreign technology, such as Intel chips that are not mostly designed in China. I was going to say designed in the US, but then I remembered how Intel has design centers around the world

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