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They are certainly accelerating. I think the consensus is that it is within fabrication there is a "chokepoint". In terms of design, China has world class comp
by throwaway4good 3y ago
They are certainly accelerating. I think the consensus is that it is within fabrication there is a "chokepoint".
In terms of design, China has world class companies. However in terms of fabrication and especially semiconductor manufacturing equipment, they are still somewhat behind.
Also x86 is very sticky - it is going to take them a decade to get rid of that.
- morkalork 3y agoA decade or two isn't a long time, politically.
- luyu_wu 3y agoInterestingly, they've got binary translators for both ARM and x86 which were demoed in Geekerwan's video. Apparently, they're apparently donating a compilation farm for a Debian repository. Definetly interesting to see how Lithography will develop independently in China, and if it will ever pass the EUV chokepoint.
- xgk 3y ago> In terms of design, China has world class companies. And not just companies. This is currently the world's top open-source RISC-V development https://github.com/OpenXiangShan https://github.com/OpenXiangShan coming from the Chinese Academy of Science. (Whether China will remain investing in RISC-V, given that the US government has started to pressure US RISC-V development to limit their involvement with China is another question.)