In a new front in the U.S.-China tech war, President Joe Biden's administration is facing pressure from some lawmakers to restrict American companies from working on a freely available chip technology widely used in China - a move that could upend how the global technology industry collaborates across borders. At issue is RISC-V, pronounced "risk five," an open-source technology that competes with costly proprietary technology from British semiconductor and software design company Arm Holdings.
Apparently China is “abusing” RISC-V! I simply don’t understand the mentality. :/
I guess they think of RISC-V as a security threat because
In other words : they perceive open source as anti-capitalist.
It was a visionary move to decamp RISC-V to Switzerland, I’d say.