Re: Oh, Those Crazy North Mexicans ...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

So China is investing more heavily in RISC-V, as a reaction to US
sanctions on exports of proprietary technology
<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-government-shifts-focus-from-x86-and-arm-cpus-promoting-the-adoption-of-risc-v-chips>.
But the idea that they can avoid sanctions by using open-source
technologies just seems to enrage some in the US even further:

That ship has sailed. If sanctions were applied like 30
years ago it could have slowed things down.  But at this
point, China has a vibrant tech industry and can probably
develop much more quickly than the US due to the US war on
education.

   some American lawmakers urged the Biden
   administration to limit domestic companies from
   working on RISC-V

<snip>

How stupid can the US be ?  All this will do is ensure China
will control the tech industry.

So what? The USA is going to try and claim ownership of (and
impose export controls on) open-source now?

Sure they can try, but the political occurrences in the
last couple of weeks probably showed the world they can
soon start ignoring the US.

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