1y ago

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V

www.theregister.com

US government reportedly probes China’s use of RISC-V

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Cold war boomers trying to legislate tech they know nothing about
- A group of "cold war boomers" also designed the RISC chips in question.
  
  RISC-V is pretty recent, the project started in 2010. It's a lot more likely that it was GenX professors and millenial grad students.
So the US government wants to curtail the use of an open source architecture that is published by a Swiss organization which isn't controlled by any government.
Talk about tilting at windmills. What the fuck could they possibly do? Sanction RISC-V International? ONO!
What are they gonna do next, ban Linux?
The US government is a spoiled child that is throwing a temper tantrum over the success of others.
- Nah, it's a failing empire. And there has never been an empire that fell before on humanity's history that had a peaceful sunset
  
  Take a guess, is the US share of world GDP decreasing or increasing over time or roughly staying the same?
- It's ruled by spoiled childs, so that checks out.
- Always has been
Doesn't seem there is anything that they can do lol
- The spec is open source, particular implementation are typically under patent/copyright protection.
  Not that they can be enforced effectively, unless the chips are exported into the US.
  
  Isn't the whole point that china wants to implement it themselves so they would know if it's secure (i.e. has no western backdoors and has chinese backdoors)?
Lol let's stop people from using this open source design
If anything this might increase self-reliance
How could this ever even work? Isn't the cat out of the bag. China will make chips if it wants to... I don't see how you could stop them.
By make it harder do they mean put a gun to ASMLs head to not sell them the hadware needed to make them ? ASML is a Dutch company, spun out of Phillips from memory.
Edit: i was being melodramatic, I will still leave this up.
My home country is eating away at itself. 🫤 Every day I hear news of how the US is chasing the clouds, attacking the "illusive newfound chinese power". The US is acting like the king from double king.
- The US is trying to prevent both China and Russia from:
  Spewing propaganda to its citizens by posing as citizens or manipulating social media algorithms
  Taking advantage of the work it and other countries have done to advance computing
  Stealing designs and advancing them without giving back
  Stealing designs and using state money to undercut the competition's pricing
  Buying up the world while refusing to let the world buy any of China
  Expanding their borders by violence
  Among many many other things. I think this RISC-V thing will go no where but I get why they're looking at it.
  There's plenty the US is getting wrong... But I don't think trying to limit China's growth and power on the backs of western technology is one.
  
  I hope not, its extralegal. I understand what they are trying to do and still beleave they are okay with personally doing all that stuff but upset when anyone else tries. ~~If these 3 countries keep this up, we will likely have multiple fallen empires on the world stage.~~
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What's wrong, America, can't take the competition?
- No! Something something bootstraps should not work for foreign countries!

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