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Maybe it will force missile-gap thinking to get Western firms to compete directly. I could see Western governments dangling big contracts or research grants to
by hakfoo 3y ago
Maybe it will force missile-gap thinking to get Western firms to compete directly. I could see Western governments dangling big contracts or research grants to firms like ST and Microchip, just to make sure they have a RISC-V product line that crowds THead or WCH parts out of the market.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y agoI think it will instead cause them to force companies to drop RISC-V development. After all, an instruction set’s fabrication, tooling, software are far more valuable than any theoretical advantage of the instruction set itself. (For example, see how long x86 has been going). The goal would be to leave China with an architecture that nobody else uses.
- gary_0 3y agoIt's far too late for that. Over 10 billion RISC-V chips are already in use in GPUs, hard drives, automobiles, and so on. Uncountable person-hours have been put into adding RISC-V support to Linux, Android, Chromium, GCC, and thousands of other libraries and software packages. Google, Qualcomm, Intel, IBM, Samsung, and nVidia are among[0] the RISC-V organization's many members, who have already collectively invested billions of dollars in the technology. At this point, telling the tech industry to stop using RISC-V would be like telling them to stop using Linux. [0] https://riscv.org/members/ https://riscv.org/members/