Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer?
  • kixik@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I read somewhere, loonson was going to change ISA to risc-v, can’t remember when. But this article shows they’ll keep on mips, apparently (“his company plans to build out a software ecosystem that will allow Chinese users to run more applications on the LoongArch ISA natively”)?

    I think they should move to risc-v. I know mips ISA was open sourced as well, one or two years back, but still…

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Sooo are they going to be exporting those? Specifically exporting them to places now barred by sanctions from getting western chips?

      • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Several Chinese companies have refused to sell their products to Russia in the wake of the sanctions onslaught last year. Lenovo for example had joined on the sanctions, while others stated no reasons, but didn’t progress with negotiations - there was this HK avionics maker, whose name escapes me at the moment.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
          3·
          2 years ago

          There’s a similar dynamic playing out with China that played out with Russia last year. Russia used to have very subdued relations with countries like Iran or DPRK because they didn’t want to incur secondary sanctions from US as a result of open trade. However, once US decided to go nuclear with the sanctions against Russia then there was no reason to keep holding back.

          Similarly, China has been playing a balancing act to avoid getting cut off from business in the west while low key supporting Russia. Now that US is becoming more openly hostile towards China, there is an increased incentive for China to deepen relations with Russia. You can see how China is increasingly publishing articles like this and this openly telling the west that their relationship with Russia is solid.

          In particular, the CHIPS act basically ensures that Chinese companies won’t have access to high end tech from the west. So, tech companies that previously worried about getting sanctioned, will have little to worry about going forward. The worst has already been done.