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They make whatever is most profitable as individual companies.
And China as a government, absolutely loves the idea of everyone's computer usage going thru giant corporations because the Chinese government owns part of every Chinese company and doesn't need a backdoor since they have a set of keys.
Like, why would they make something that they don't want and would sell for less profit margin overseas?
Why build for a bunch of broke consumers when there's a blank check for anything related to data centers right now?
That demand could disappear tomorrow. Personal computers will just get more expensive so prices will keep going up for when they have to switch back.
Why would you ever hope China would save us from this?
Edit:
It seems like people are confused here:
Reason 1 they want to make data center stuff, is just money:
Separate reason #2 to prefer data center stuff as a product, is everything in China goes thru Chinese companies which China controls.
If Chinese consumers have to offload their data processing to large corporations, then since China owns a piece of every corporations, they now see everything people process.
Which is why the next sentence references two reason the Chinese government would want to squash home computing in favor of "cloud computing" thru data centers:
How the hell does one hide and then use a backdoor in ram?
You add a piece of code that scans for a specific very big prime number and if it finds that, you look for any process and inject into stdlibc any backdoor of your choice
You add a piece of code (to ram, which famously does not hold information while unpowered).
Which scans for a specific very big prime number (finding large primes quickly would completely invalidate the world’s cryptography and therefore banking, that’s why people are afraid of the quantum boogeyman).
You look for any process and inject into stdlibc any backdoor of your choice (just any process, doesn’t need elevated permissions, assuming they use libc, assuming the backdoor hasn’t been patched out from the other end, defeated by any of the dozens of software integrity checks that have become standard).