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"Moving RISC-V International to Switzerland seems to have been a very prudent move." Sad to say: very. Even trying to put a lid on RISC-V development by other
by RetroTechie 3y ago
"Moving RISC-V International to Switzerland seems to have been a very prudent move."
Sad to say: very. Even trying to put a lid on RISC-V development by other nations, shows just 1 thing: a lack of understanding how open specifications work.
Low(er) performance implementations are free-for-all, and will stay so. That cat is out of the bag.
High-performance implementations may involve some "trade secret" sauce. But any non-US entity can apply secret sauce of their own. US export controls wouldn't slow that down in any meaningful way.
And China has a huge internal market. The US not as big. Both can sell products elsewhere.
So whatever may be proposed here (it's not clear if, or what), it would only shoot US companies in the foot. Chinese ones? Hardly.
But if US wants to build a bigger footgun: go ahead, make China's day.