Tell them how China is using github, stackoverflow and Linux.
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RISC-V chip technology emerges as new battleground in US-China tech war
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've looked into the "why" of that, since I, too, wondered why a design that comes from the University of Berkeley (the home of BSD) lives there: international legal protection and tax reasons. That said, because of that, you could also say it belongs to the entire world, equally, and I would be happy with that description as well; but politicians don't really understand those words, and only think in terms of tribal…
I thought it was mostly to avoid US politics and possible tech bans export? Especially since the RISC V foundation is a non profit.
You’re correct - there’s obviously no tax benefit since nonprofits have no tax obligation. I don’t think it’s a coincidence they moved there in the midst of all the last administration’s saber rattling with China. The previous entity was HQed in the US and then merged into a Swiss entity so pretty safe to assume why.
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#63Once the guys learn general relativity is used by GPS, they may just want to ban that … neither the US nor the world can afford this type of stupidity …
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#64I'm glad I don't see a single comment here supporting this nonsense. I hope some of the intelligence and understanding from this community permeates to the general public should these morons attempt to proceed with their ill-conceived plan.
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#65Tell them how china is using .cn! They didn’t even pull that trigger in case of .ru. ICANN is the space laser that I hope they never discover they have
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#66Seems like the ARM lobbyists are making moves
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#67> "require any American person or company to receive an export license prior to engaging with PRC (People's Republic of China) entities on RISC-V technology." How would that end up working? I've seen situations in which exports restrictions came up, and which resulted in design or manufacturing being restructured, so that more work was shifted to be done in the restricted country. Which also meant that more know-how…
What the hell does that even mean for open source? Need an export license to run a frigging GitHub project if it has anything to do with RISC-V at all? Does a compiler with a RISC-V target count? Projects with RISC-V builds?
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#68What is the incentive for big giants like Intel, Qualcomm, and Nvidia to adopt RISC-V? Isn't their moat their in-house chips?
I guess it is more about companies which don't have their own proprietary chips or companies in developing nations.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
“China is expected to outnumber all other regions in new chip manufacturing facilities, with 20 supporting mature technologies planned.” https://www.semi.org/en/news-media-press-releases/semi-press... Why is it not easy for China to spin up their own fabs? They have a strategic plan / industrial policy[1]. They have the industrial base[2][3]. They have pumping out engineering graduates[3]. † [1] https://en.wikipedia.…
Yeah but quantity has always been chinas strength. Where they have historically struggled is quality. If they can bring the quality up to acceptable levels then those numbers would be truly impressive. That’s what they are striving for
The US is also not great at quality (but good at innovating at speed at the expense of all else). Think Detroit and the waste of engineering talent at FAANGs.
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#70Seems like the ARM lobbyists are making moves
ARM is a company from the UK, so we'd hear this from the UK government if the ARM lobbists were making moves. It's probably Intel or just dumb senators who heard about RISC-V but not MIPS which was also open sourced.
Lobbying will be done where you'll get max bang for buck.