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Exclusive: China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide, sources say (archive.is)

submitted 1 week ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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BEIJING/SHANGHAI, March 4 (Reuters) - China plans to issue guidance to encourage the use of open-source RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time, two sources briefed on the matter said, as Beijing accelerates efforts to curb the country's dependence on Western-owned technology. The policy guidance on boosting the use of RISC-V chips could be released as soon as this month, although the final date could change, the sources said.

In China, state entities and research institutes have eagerly embraced RISC-V in recent years, seeing it as geopolitically neutral. Chinese chip designers are attracted by its lower costs, but the government has yet to mention it in policy.

In 2023, Reuters reported that some U.S. lawmakers were putting pressure on the Biden administration to restrict American companies from working on the technology over concerns that Beijing was exploiting its open-source nature to advance its own semiconductor industry.

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[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, let's call someone 'using open source' in terms of 'to exploit'.

Maybe the US should also ban GNU licences, open hardware licences and force Linux to sell itself to Google while we're at it. Then destroy all distros except chromeOS.
After all, China could exploit these open source software projects.

And in this way one no longer has to be confused about copyright and copyleft being opposite ends of free democratic nations and communist authoritarian empires. /s

[–] ImFineJustABitTired@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

U.S. lawmakers were putting pressure on the Biden administration to restrict American companies from working on the technology over concerns that Beijing was exploiting its open-source nature to advance its own semiconductor industry.

This is so ridiculous it actually becomes funny, I can’t even be mad at it

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

I would love decent RISC-V hardware