US urged to ban RISC-V
<https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-china-tech-war-risc-v-chip-technology-emerges-new-battleground-2023-10-06/> Land of the Free? "I fear that our export-control laws are not equipped to deal with the challenge of open-source software - whether in advanced semiconductor designs like RISC-V or in the area of AI - and a dramatic paradigm shift is needed," Warner said in a statement to Reuters.
It may be harder to do than they think. The RISC-V consortium moved its HQ from the US to Switzerland, anticipating that the US could be an unreliable host. And it's not like this is a Chinese chip; it's being developed by an international team. What irks the US is that the Chinese cannot be prevented from contributing or using it. Also keep in mind that this is not about production, just design. The RISC-V group is creating chip designs but someone else has to produce them, kinda like ARM's model. It's possible that the RISC design will keep things simple enough that China's lower-quality (and yet-unsanctioned) fabs can produce them. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. - Evan On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:30 AM James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2023-10-11 03:44, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Land of the Free?
What else would you expect from the Repubs? They're attacking freedom from many directions.
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-china-tech-war-risc-v-chip-technology-... Further to RISC-V, there's an interesting presentation going on *right now* at the St Louis LUG/UUG:
MAIN: Risc-V Architecture Differences
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83629156939?pwd=Aae1zXZi6LUJN9b6nKzz8fM9Lt7XuK.1 Come & join us - this guy's really well informed. rb
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