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What the west doing? We really can't compete?
by WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago
What the west doing? We really can't compete?
- leoedin 3y agoTo some extent I agree with you, but I don't think this is a good example. These types of "computers" are pretty simple electronics. All the complexity lives inside the "System on chip" - the engineer then picks a few supporting chips and makes sure the signal routing is matched. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing is based on a reference design from the SoC designer. In this case, the west basically already competes - this is pretty similar to the raspberry pi zero. There's plenty of Western designed SoCs - which is where the complexity and IP lie.
- azinman2 3y agoRISC-V is western designed, open sourced, and will be usurped by China to have a chipset with western supplied tooling.
- sofixa 3y agoYou can't usurp open source designs.
- RobotToaster 3y agoA huge amount of work is being done on RISC-V in China, because it can't be embargoed.
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- jurimasa 3y agoUnhinged.
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- mytailorisrich 3y agoAll those SBCs are copying the Raspberry Pi range. But they go all in on hardware and tend to be lacking on the software and documentation sides compared to the various Pi. For example, the Pi Pico comes with nice SDKs, comprehensive documentation, and can be flashed with a simple file drag and drop as they made it show as an USB drive. So I'd say the West is still leading on this...
- nebula8804 3y agoI don't think there is enough of a desire in the west to waste time pumping out non-innovative low spec trash. They follow the manta of "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." For everything else, there is China after all.
- WhereIsTheTruth 3y agoIt took them 8 years to act? Something doesn't compute, perhaps they are dumping all of them because they are ready to release theirs? https://www.federalreserve.gov/cbdc-faqs.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/cbdc-faqs.htm Was Bitcoin an open source beta test?
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