content: I'm actually really glad this is taking place. MIPS is a very good architecture, much better than x86 imo. Having a cheap source for MIPS chips will be a good thing.  There are also Open Source architectures out there (Berkeley's RISC-V being one of them ) and China is likely to be the first mass producer of these as well. Intel and AMD flat out refuse to make these chips precisely because they are Open Source. So imagine what will happen to them when China floods the market with 20$ Open Source RISC chips.