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?
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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Its more or less what the other commenter says. Its likely just arm lobbying the mass adoption of Risc-V as it is its main compeitor if it takes off.
Some smaler companies already use RISC-V in their products (e.g Pine64, who has a soldering iron, laptop, tablet, watch and such running RISC-V), and some larger chip designers have it in the backlogs (e.g AMD), clearly china doesnt want to pay ARM and thy currently have the talent to design CPUs, so switching over to RISC-V overtime makes sense for them. The politicians are just using China as a scapegoat in order to protect ARM.
Also European industry is trying to use #RISC-V to claim independency from the US supremacy on the semiconductor and computer market (The EPI project I think it is called).
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.