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If China's military use is the concern here, then it is worth remembering that most weapons systems don't contain the most modern chips. CPUs 10 to 20 years old

• brianhorakh 3y ago
  Disagree. Yes- Us Weapons platforms are. This is how the us build pure cold war style "for military use only" tech. The money wasted reinventing the wheel by defense contractors is why Americans will never have affordable healthcare or sustainable social services. China simply doesn't do that afaik, it's civilian and military tech isn't always developed independently. Restated: China blurs the line between military and police state tech. It's tech is frequently multi purpose. Drones, bipedal and quad petal robots, ai/ml applications etc. Are not 10-20 years old. They are running the latest risc-v cores. China being "more socialist" really embraced open source, multi use, drtw. It could be many reasons. I was surprised to discover one the boards an esp32-cam (xtensa core) purchased off aliexpress was originally designed to be used in ccp military/police surveillance applications. I don't know which came first, but the esp32-cam board is so extremely well suited for that specific military application that the entire design and layout of the board made sense to me. Espressif a Shanghai based company now is making both xtensa and risc-v chips.
  • RachelF 3y ago
    Good points.