https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-cpu-tested
The KX-7000 series, next iteration of Zhaoxin's X86 chip with its natively developed microarchitecture is due to be manufactured on TSMC 7nm with DDR5 and PCIE 4.0 support.
All it has to do is to be "good enough". Then the Chinese local consumer market shifts to that. Government orders, of course, are mandated to be 100% Chinese-designed chips to avoid possible foreign back-dooring.
(Even the current gen Zhaoxin, with its c-appy performance and 16nm TSMC process, are already inside Chinese-specific servers by the likes of HP and Lenovo right at this moment)
You don't have to be a genius to figure out what happens to Intel's profits after that.
Just for reference... a fact:
Intel net revenue by country, 2019:
China $20.03 billion
United States $15.62 billion
Singapore $15.65B
Taiwan $10.06B
Rest of the whole world: $10.61B
- get ready to lose that big huge hunk o' Chinese change, and see what happens next