Chinese chipmaker Phytium has announced that it has sold more than 10 million units of its Feiteng series of processors. These processors are mainly used in national engineering and important local industries, including cloud servers and terminal equipment. This demonstrates that China’s local chip industry can continue to make progress despite US restrictions.
Although Phytium is unable to legally use U.S.-made parts due to U.S. Entity List restrictions, the company has successfully developed several in-house chips. The 64-core Tengyun S2500 server processor and FTC870 chip, launched last year, are close in performance to Arm’s Neoverse N2 chip. In addition, Phytium introduces the Feiteng Tengrui D3000 desktop processor, which is designed for office environments.
Other Chinese chipmakers are also growing rapidly with domestic policy support. Loongson has reportedly supplied 10,000 chips to Chinese schools and applied their processors to the Tiangong space station, marking an important milestone in developing domestic technology. At the same time, companies such as Huawei and Hygon are also taking a larger market share, especially in China’s telecommunications industry, which is gradually reducing its dependence on Western technology.
Although Chinese chip technology is still about 10 years behind the United States, China has made significant progress in its processor technology. Earlier, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo described it as a futile move to stop China’s chip development. The U.S. Senate pointed out that the White House’s control of China’s technology industry has had limited effectiveness due to insufficient funding from the Department of Commerce.
