The two major companies making and selling chips using the x86 instruction set are some of the most prominent in the tech community: Intel and AMD. In 2020 Intel sold $20 billion worth of processors to China. AMD had $2.3 billion. Both figures are on par with or higher than what those companies make from the United States. China is a massive market for these two. And China knows it too. So it is interesting to see some Chinese companies coming out with home-grown x86 processors of their own. Is a domestic swap in the works? How did China acquire x86 technologies in the first place? The whole thing is worth looking into, to say the least. So I thought to do a video about it. EDIT: For those interested in seeing how the Hygon benchmarks, I recommend the fantastic piece done by Anandtech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15493/hygon-dhyana-reviewed-chinese-x86-cpus-amd Links: - The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.com/ - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry