Apparently China is “abusing” RISC-V! I simply don’t understand the mentality. :/
China is being blamed for not wanting to pay license fees to ARM? I don’t see how you could classify that as malicious, that sounds pretty reasonable to me. Or am I overlooking something?
They’re scared of losing what they perceive as their technical supremecy : RISC-V is proving itself to be a capable construct.
The interesting thing will be to see what big US business’s reaction will be : Google and Qualcomm have got some clout…
Sounds like ARM is investing some of that sweet IPO cash in lobbying congress.
The old adage remains true: if you want to know who’s behind something, look at who stands to profit most.
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I guess they think of RISC-V as a security threat because
- they can’t control it
- they can’t annex it to exclusively make money from it and
- because it blows the bloody doors off the protocols they do control to make money.
In other words : they perceive open source as anti-capitalist.
It was a visionary move to decamp RISC-V to Switzerland, I’d say.
