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How is it a gift to China? Architecture isn't where the magic is.
by wbl 2y ago
How is it a gift to China? Architecture isn't where the magic is.
- azinman2 2y agoBecause the tooling is make or break. When LLVM, Linux, rust, debuggers, Android etc etc support it you have a real chance. Having an ISA that one company doesn’t own means you can develop chips that plug in, although all the extensions of RISC-V make that a little harder.
- le-mark 2y agoAlso, do Chinese companies have licenses for all the ARM cores they produce? I assumed they don’t. They traditionally don’t care about IP, so it’s a wash anyaway.
- toast0 2y agoIt's a gift to everyone if an actually open architecture is usable. But it's especially a gift to sanctioned regimes, because they can more easily use this architecture for home grown chips that become desirable when mainstream chips are embargoed or under threat of embargo. Yes, there's still fabrication, but China and Russia have some fabrication going, just not at the latest nodes. Starting from an open standard makes it a lot easier than if they have to clone an architecture/chip or make a whole ecosystem of architecture and software.