AMD is fabless they already are using other manufacturers to build their CPU&#x27;s and GPU&#x27;s.
Intel is the only one who&#x27;s currently both designs and manufactures all of their components.<p>As for the Chinese fabs, there aren&#x27;t that many Chinese manufacturers that can produce an ARM SOC at this moment, the only one of note is MediaTek (And while they are cheap, they aren&#x27;t that cheap to cause any major issues), you can&#x27;t just copy a CPU easily, it&#x27;s not like you can buy a full blown functional reference design from ARM that will be commercially viable you actually need to develop it yourself (especially considering that you need quite a bit of stuff in the SOC that ARM doesn&#x27;t cover). If you look at the current ARM SOC&#x27;s even if they are based on the same ARM architecture they are virtually nothing alike.<p>And it&#x27;s not like Intel didn&#x27;t had (Acer, SiS, NEC, UMC, IBM, National Semiconductors, NexGen, Transmeta, fuck the 90&#x27;s to early&#x2F;mid 2000&#x27;s were filled with x86 knockoffs) or has competition in the x86 arena from Chinese (And non-Chinese) companies heck VIA is still making cheap X86 CPU&#x27;s many of them are very low power (watt per watt until the new Core-M stuff some would actually out-perform intel in some cases) the problem is that all of them are kinda crap, and most importantly don&#x27;t have a well established ecosystem (interconnect-buses, chipsets, memory controllers etc.) and outside of cheap embedded systems (or 20$ 7&quot; &quot;netbooks&quot; from DealExtreme or Alibaba) you won&#x27;t see them anywhere.