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International Electronics Business News on the 25th RISC-V has become a new front in the strategic competition between China and the United States in advanced chip technology.
The U.S. Commerce Department is reviewing the national security implications of China's work on open source RISC-V chip technology, Reuters reported.
But the U.S. Department of Commerce responded that it is "working hard to review potential risks and assess whether the Commerce Department has taken appropriate actions to effectively address any potential issues."
International Electronics Business Information understands that RISC-V, ARM, and With the support of the community, RISC-V has shown great potential in many fields. At this stage, RISC-V has become a popular choice for manufacturing micro-low-cost cores, and companies including Qualcomm and Google are also developing higher-performance products based on RISC-V.
It is understood that as early as 2023, 18 members of the House and Senate of the U.S. Congress put pressure on the Biden administration to formulate a plan to prevent China from "obtaining a dominant position in RISC-V technology."
In this regard, the U.S. Department of Commerce also pointed out that caution needs to be exercised to avoid harming U.S. companies affiliated with international organizations engaged in RISC-V technology.
The reason why the United States hopes to regulate RISC-V technology is mainly because of the openness of the technology, which allows anyone to use it freely without paying patent fees, and the architecture is more flexible. Its modular design allows developers to flexibly tailor instructions according to application needs. set. This allows Chinese companies to obtain a command structure to circumvent U.S. control measures under U.S. technological pressure.
In recent years, Chinese companies have invested more resources in the RISC-V architecture and have made significant achievements and progress. At present, China's RISC-V ecosystem has achieved a lot of results, such as the Xuantie C910 processor launched by Alibaba, and many Chinese companies are trying to apply RISC-V to different industries such as power, 5G communications, robotics, and finance.
In addition, the shipment volume of RISC-V chips continues to increase. Alibaba’s Xuantie series RISC-V processors alone have achieved shipments of more than 4 billion units.
Now, the United States is restricting China's innovation and progress in the RISC-V architecture in the name of safeguarding "national security." While it's unclear what actions the U.S. government might or even be able to take, not only is the potential effectiveness of the move controversial, but the open source community is also likely to resist such a move by the U.S. government.
According to industry analysts, it will be difficult for the United States to restrict China in RISC-V technology, and American companies will inevitably suffer huge losses as a result. Previously, many technology giants have been affected to varying degrees by the United States’ control measures on AI chips and 5G technology.
Reposted from: International Electronic Commerce, automatically translated by Google
