Intel, as far as I know, only let people go because they've been diminished due to ARM and Cisco with smartphone processors.

What is this new CPU from China? China is quite publicly known to be years behind the US in semiconductor design & fabrication.

I would agree with your statement that we'll get a new Chinese OS. Overall this is already in existence w/ WeChat, and all they need to do is go further down into the Kernal. As Android is restricted partially in the future, this may lead to other problems thought.

We'll see.