China and other Asian countries have been making our hardware for more than a decade now, and designing it for almost as long.
Given their current drive and their experience in the technological arena, I firmly believe that China will be defining the standards of the industry in the next twenty years or so.
Especially if the US continues its slide towards ignorance in the educational sector.

Loongson 2E/2F are already and will be soon available today for desktop computing and small server applications and perform admirably despite their currently relatively low clock speeds compared to the x86 competitors. In fact I have such a computer running a modern Linux distribution now.

With the launch of Loongson 3 we will see a huge shift from x86 based processors that are in no way bad performers to these low power multicore ones, that will be running at the same or higher speeds than Intel/AMD equivalents in a few years time.

"Especially if the US continues its slide towards ignorance in the educational sector." 

What an ignorant uneducated generalization.

Thanks,