If China ever goes hardcore on open source across the board for all hardware and software, it would absolutely crush the present Western hegemony. It would be the most moral high ground move too.
Depending on how well/thoroughly it handles it, that could also remove a lot of the worry of companies adding ccp-accessible backdoors.
Funny how in “communist” China almost no code is open source. It’s almost like it was never about “the people” huh
Can’t have the people using unsanctioned software.
I’ll wait and see when someone finally produces a RISC-V chip that can keep up with the big boys. But they can’t even compete with ARM at the moment, so I am not holding my breath.
What, not even an IBM POWER 10 ?
The Power 10 is not RISC-V. It is a RISC processor, namely of the Power ISA architecture, based on the good old PowerPC 601.
I have not dealt with those chips for about 30 years, though.
I’m excited to see more competition! I also like how RISC-V is based on open source work which reduces startup costs and opens up greater collaboration. We’ve all benefited greatly from open source software, so it would be nice to see more of that on the hardware side as well. I’ll be shocked if the chip actually competes on performance, though it may be more of a cost-for-performance deal like ARM. Speaking of which, I wonder how it’ll compare with ARM server processors as well.
