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Ian Cutress muses upon rumors around SiFive, the forerunner of high-performance RISC-V cores.

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[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was expecting this to go into the direction of "China has inserted itself as a state level actor into the development of RISC-V, don't use it". That would've been ridiculous as the US has been meddling with chips for a long time and we still use their stuff. Having chip designs or instruction set architecture out in the open would give me much more confidence in a chip that anything AMD, ARM, Nvidia, qualcomm or whatever out there release.

Of course open ISA doesn't mean the resulting chip will be open, but it's a step in the right direction.

[โ€“] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Indeed. We should also develop ways to detect sabotage in the design and manufacturing stages so a user can verify their chip doesn't have a backdoor