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Building out tooling and even chips based on RISC-V is handing the future to China. They’re going all in because it’s an ISA that the west generated and builds
by azinman2 3y ago
Building out tooling and even chips based on RISC-V is handing the future to China. They’re going all in because it’s an ISA that the west generated and builds support for but is free to use, which plays into their strengths of lowest cost and their ambition to own the future chips of the world.
- bhouston 3y agoYou are right that China is going on in on RISC-V in part because of Western sanctions. It is yet another reason why RISC-V has so much momentum. It is in China's interest to destroy Intel's and ARM's competitive advantages and it is pouring money and people into it.
- azinman2 3y agoThey wouldn’t be producing ARM or x86 even if no sanctions. They want to own an entire ecosystem.
- lmm 3y agoAn architecture that's developed in public that anyone can implement is a funny way to achieve that. Particularly given that western firms do largely follow the IP rules, if China wanted an ecosystem they controlled, surely they'd develop their own proprietary one (or worst case, buy out one of the western also-rans).
- azinman2 3y agoThe point being that the west has already accepted it and is building tooling for it, yet it’s free. So they can’t be embargoed, but they can embrace, extend, and extinguish with massive subsidies and incentive.