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Why would they pick RISC-V. It is not as if China would let IP rights stop them from developing the CPU they think is best. Does RISC-V actually have an advant
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
Why would they pick RISC-V. It is not as if China would let IP rights stop them from developing the CPU they think is best. Does RISC-V actually have an advantage other than the fact that is is open source? With the ton of existing software that is either x86 or ARM it would be easier from a backwards compatibility point of view to go with one of those. Would Europe or the US really get into an all out trade war with China over CPU instruction sets?
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThey're going to want to be able to export it. Also, the primary advantage of x86 is that it runs all the legacy Windows software, but China wouldn't want to use something that the US controls the updates for, nor would they want to use something that isn't getting updates, nor would they want to maintain their own Windows fork. And if they're going to use Linux then the architecture doesn't really matter and they might as well use one that they can export if they feel like it.