• Beaver [he/him]
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    6524 days ago

    “The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is abusing RISC-V to get around U.S. dominance of the intellectual property needed to design chips”

    Malding so hard that China is using an open standard for it’s intended purpose.

  • RedWizard [he/him]
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    5224 days ago

    Pretty reasonable comment section. This is just as stupid as the TikTok conversation. RISK-V could be a real game changer, something that is ultimately good for business, but the rabid Sinophobes of America would rather stab themselves in the gut than do any real competition.

    The entire computer stack is beholden to open standards. We’d be living in proprietary hell, and computers would be dog shit without them. Hexbear would only exist as a dial in BBS or Usenet instance.

  • blashork [she/her]M
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    4324 days ago

    Lmao clown shit. RISCV is good, but it would be really funny if China went all in on loongson just to make the US cope even harder.

  • Refurbished Refurbisher
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    24 days ago

    Well you see, RISC-V is a royalty-free ISA and an open standard, and is therefore *gasp* communist.

    Or something like that.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      2724 days ago

      I kinda hope that the killer clowns in charge of the US will force US companies to stop using RISC-V based architecture while the rest of the world moves on.

      • @FuckBigTech347
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        224 days ago

        Can’t wait to see all the tech bros training their LLMs on superior western Tube- Intel/ARM-based computers while claiming that chinese RISC-V/LoongArch systems are worse because backdoors and communist spies.

  • Zvyozdochka [comrade/them]
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    1824 days ago

    Yea, good luck with that, go kick rocks. The Yanks are getting real scared of SMIC now, their first round of sanctions made China go from having decent semiconductor production capabilities to being able to compete with offerings from TSMC in like half a year and it will only keep getting better. America has sealed it’s own fate, as is usual.

    xi-lib-tears

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    1724 days ago

    lol this should backfire so hard.

    The only way to limit access to an open standard is to take it over and change the next version so it’s now de facto proprietary. This is how ISO was corrupted when it came to docx. And this will mean nothing unless there’s a ton of new processors out there using the new standard (let’s call it RISC-VI) and it’s so much better that anyone using RISC-V loses out.

    Realistically, all this can do is make China rush even harder to produce RISC-V chips and ensure the actual chips that exist are using the open standard.

    • huf [he/him]
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      1224 days ago

      china should preemptively release RISC-VI (named after lenin of course).

    • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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      524 days ago

      This is how ISO was corrupted when it came to docx.

      Do you have any links to more info on this? Sounds interesting and I want to know more.

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        724 days ago

        This seems like an okay overview: https://brattahlid.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/is-docx-really-an-open-standard/

        Basically ODF was already a standard and perfectly sufficient to tweak for anything Word would ever need but Microsoft knew that they keep their monopoly secure, in part, by making other software fight to be compatible with Word documents. They also prefer to be in control of the entire ecosystem rather than implementing a shared standard. They proposed docx and other -x formats as their own open standard and were rejected until they more or less bought off ISO through donations and committee positions.

        Microsoft then proceeded to make their own proprietary tweaks anyways, making it still very difficult to support the docx format.

  • @Sodium_nitride
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    724 days ago

    China is not making relations easier, with a report yesterday finding that Chinese universities have been sidestepping sanctions on Nvidia GPUs.

    Lol