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As much as free market capitalism can exist when China completely dominates the RISC-V market.
by wwtrv 3y ago
As much as free market capitalism can exist when China completely dominates the RISC-V market.
- brucehoult 3y agoExcept they don't. At the moment Chinese companies (well, WCH) dominate the stand-alone RISC-V microcontroller market, which has mindshare with engineers designing PCBs well out of proportion to the market size or profitability. Western companies dominate the market for RISC-V cores that are invisibly going into larger chips in huge markets such as mobile phone SoCs made by Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung. Chinese companies are also at the moment dominating the assembling of RISC-V cores into Linux-capable chips with the large collection of other IP needed for this, and putting those chips on to SBCs. But the CPU cores used are a mix of Chinese and Western ones, with for example SOPHGO's upcoming high performance 16 core SG2380 SoC using American SiFive P670 cores.