China orders government to dump foreign computers (Bloomberg)
China has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within two years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts to eradicate key overseas technology from within sensitive institutions.
Staff were asked after the week-long International Workers’ Day break, from last Saturday to Wednesday, to turn in foreign PCs for local alternatives that use operating software developed domestically, people familiar with the plan said.
The exercise, which was mandated by central government authorities, is eventually to replace about 50 million computers within the government, and more in state-connected firms, the sources said.
The decision advances China’s decade-long campaign to replace imported technology with local alternatives, a sweeping effort to reduce its dependence on geopolitical rivals such as the US for everything from semiconductors to servers and phones. It is likely to affect sales by HP Inc and Dell Technologies Inc, the country’s largest PC brands after local champion Lenovo Group Ltd (聯想).
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Lenovo used to be part of IBM; we should have stopped that divestiture.
I really hope the US is working on making us independent.
Would be nice if Mexico were not a failed state. They would be getting a massive share of the manufacturing that has been going to China.
Link: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2022/05/07/2003777823
I've always hated Lenovo laptops, they are just enough different from Dell/HP/ASUS/etc. to be annoying.
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