US lawmakers press Biden for plans on Chinese use of open chip technology

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RISC V International moved their headquarters from the U.S. to Switzerland four years ago exactly in anticipation of U.S. protectionist and imperialist actions aiming to constrain the use and proliferation of the architecture… https://www.eetimes.eu/risc-v-to-move-hq-to-switzerland-amid...

> Now, a broader group of 18 lawmakers that includes five Democrats is asking the Biden administration for how it plans to prevent China "from achieving dominance in ... RISC-V technology and leveraging that dominance at the expense of U.S. national and economic security," according to a letter the group sent to Raimondo and seen by Reuters.

I notice a pattern, they really do work hard to suppress foreign competition, instead of just competing

There's about one way for the US to avoid being out-competed in matters of RISC-V.

That'd be by investing heavily in designing the absolute best RISC-V processors.

My 9-ball says: Unlikely.

The US will simply be left behind, losing any leadership they might have had in chip design.

It is astonishing how many meanings can be derived from "open source". So from one extreme those who think it means licence free, to those who, it seems, consider it to be a property of the state.

They want to kill RISC-V?

Good luck with that.

RISC-V is inevitable.

Don't be mistaken here, I wish RISC-V to succeed. But I don't underestimate the "others": if it takes 20 years and [bm]illions of $ to take it down or sabotage it, they will. And expect it to come from the inside (like they did for linux gaming).

succeed: worldwide broad adoption, that with extreme performance all over the board: desktop/server/embedded/mobile on the best silicium process.

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