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What’s the difference if that open source risc is manufactured in the same Chinese plant?
by samat 8y ago
What’s the difference if that open source risc is manufactured in the same Chinese plant?
- Cyph0n 8y agoMore likely a fab in Taiwan than China. You can run your RISC-V cores on an FPGA if you’re really paranoid. Of course, you’d be sacrificing performance.
- djrogers 8y agoIt's not the RIC-V cores that would be the concern - 'tis the motherboards, NICs, etc...
- fkd221 8y agoYeah, so everything would need to be open and manufactured in the US.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoWe have the fabs for it. Some are owned by defense contractors, too.
- Tempest1981 8y agoWhat if the NSA pressures the manufacturer?
- throwaway2048 8y agoevery FPGA is far more closed and secretive about its internals than Intel ever has been about its CPUs.
- astrange 8y agoThe largest(?) FPGA brand Xilinx is owned by Intel now, so maybe it'll get better.
- jsolson 8y agoAltera was acquired by Intel. Xilinx was not.
- Cyph0n 8y agoBecause an FPGA’s internals is secret sauce... Xilinx et al. are open enough about how their chips work imo. You are not going to find something like Intel ME on an FPGA.
- throwaway2048 8y agoThey don't even let you use anything except their IDE tools, and even then they are tightly controlled, you have absolutely no idea if they contain an intel ME style firmware.