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China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide (www.reuters.com)

submitted 4 days ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nice. For people that don't understand this: Basically, ARM is also a RISC (Reduced instruction set computer) but is proprietary, while risc-v is open source. risc-v is still in kind of a development stage though, while ARM is used by almost all phones, tablets, chromebooks, single board computers (raspberrypi etc), apple M1,2,3 computers and many more.

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does this mean it's easy to port from ARM to RISC-V?

[–] v_pp@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago

Not really, you still need to have a lot of tooling for compilers, hardware, etc. But it is an area where China has an opportunity to both eliminate dependence on proprietary foreign technology, and develop a technology that nobody else has a real edge in