Image courtesy of ExtremeTech. Part of the web was buzzing about the fact that China's ministry of technology  is trying to define a ‘unified” processor architecture, based either on an existing platform, or a new one. By “processor architecture”, we mean “instruction set architecture” or (ISA), like X86 is for Intel. The instruction set is basically “opcodes” (or operation code, which are the most basic machine-instructions), that will be understood and executed by processors.
Ubergizmo, China's Unified CPU Architecture, Why and When
