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Chinese scientists vow to launch breakthrough open-source chip in 2025 (www.scmp.com)

submitted 2 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] poo_22@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can't wait. How exciting would it be if China did to the chip market what they did with electric cars?

What's the support for RISC-V like for your favorite distro?

NixOS has some preliminary support from a handful of people, so that's a good start. I would expect to have to put in some significant work to daily drive it though.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I expect we'll also see a lot of work on making Linux software work with RISCV coming out of China in the near future.

[–] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully we can get a better system, even if it's a fork from it, but that isn't under control of the US...

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

very much agree

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

My favorite distro is Gentoo, which of course being probably the most mature and popular source-based distro, there's support for various architectures including RISC-V.

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

How exciting would it be if China did to the chip market what they did with electric cars?

Not a question of "if." Only a question of "when."