[showkiller]

The idea of boosting national pride might be the end goal in mind. They don't need commercial success. If they want to convey the idea to the nation that we can design and build on par and maybe even better than the rest of the world. Just feeling good about yourself has benefits.

[ansgri]

Not even that: technological independence is the goal. Some national security system may come to depend on a specific chip — which Intel will discontinue, what then? Also, the government may simply want to hide the amount of CPUs it utilizes. Impossible with foreign suppliers.

[listic]

Like sending a man on the moon, right? But that one was kinda cool, maybe this one might be, too? Anyway, don't we all agree that microprocessor space could use more diversity?