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US investigates China's access to RISC-V — open standard instruction set may become new site of US-China chip war
RISC-V seems risky for American lawmakers
The U.S. Department of Commerce is investigating the risks of China's access to the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for processors, Reuters reports, heeding calls from lawmakers. Michael McCaul, House Foreign Affairs"The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is abusing RISC-V to get around U.S. dominance of the intellectual property needed to design chips," said Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in his first attack on China's access to RISC-V back in October. Open standards, such as Ethernet, HTTPS, and USB have revolutionized the internet and technology, and restricting access to any of these would have catastrophic impacts on both the embargoed entity and the success of the open-source projects that would now find their reach limited.
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