“Communist China is developing open-source chip architecture to dodge our sanctions and grow its chip industry,” Rubio said in a statement to Reuters. “If we don’t broaden our export controls to include this threat, China will one day surpass us as the global leader in chip design.”
How dare they use MY free market against ME?
… I’m lost. So China is developing a technology that can be inspected and used by anybody, and Americans are upset because… it might be more advanced than theirs? What export controls do they propose? A Great Wall of Github so Chinese scientists have to use VPNs to research code?
The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is abusing RISC-V to get around U.S. dominance of the intellectual property needed to design chips. U.S. persons should not be supporting a PRC tech transfer strategy that serves to degrade U.S. export control laws
Abusing. Lmao. In capitalist America, the government wants to force you at gunpoint to monetize your creation
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These motherfuckers. If I live another 50 years I still won’t have public healthcare and I’ll still be on x86 because of them.
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Do we even have a NASA anymore? I thought it was all outsourced to Musk, Co by now.
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TIL
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Again, I’m not trying to defend the prick who owns most of SpaceX.
Well, its an open secret that SpaceX has an entire department dedicated to gaslighting Elon into thinking he’s in charge.
Maybe Boeing needs one of those.
So what’s happened is that a whole lot of people in the media who get their paycheques in part or in full from the MIC are doing all sorts of hand-wringing about the “commercialization of space”, when they’re really just acting on behalf of their MIC paymasters who are pissed that they can’t do the usual old cost-plus grift anymore.
Sure. And I’ve heard similar critiques of the media whining about the F-35. But when we’re pissing away a trillion a year anyway, idk, man. Its nothing I’d applaud on its face.
Especially after the budget-conscious bungles SpaceX has already made (the dirt launch pad that exploded, the Starlink debacles, etc) I’m still highly skeptical that we’re going to see the US space program as more than a vehicle launch cheap satellites in another generation or two.
Just the pick me up I needed today, another one of your fascinating space industry posts!
of course NASA still exists, and its budget is almost three whole dollars
Of course NASA still exists. Musks spacex focuses more on commercial launching for other corporations. NASA would still handle exploratory launches.
Space expedition and progress is more of an international job, and NASA would be the body to refer to for the U.S side of it.
The ISS is basically a collab effort between the US (NASA), Canada(CSA), Russia(Rocosmos), Europe(ESA) and Japan(JAXA)
Sounds like a RISC-Y move.
That’s a RISC-A move
lmao all the undergrad computer architecture classes teach using RISC-V as the example. An entire generation of engineers are gonna graduate with an education for something they legally can’t work on.
Luckily China is happy to pay American engineers to work for them
Meanwhile, the americans drive away Chinese scientists and engineers with their fanatic racism
:i recieve: technology // you recieve: fanatic racism
Debian has already had a great amount of their packages working with RISC-V (enough for a simple GNOME desktop)
Free software is finally looking to trash amd64 and x86 in the coming decade or so as the default architecture. It would be incredibly awesome if China has the first GNU/NonGNU linux distribution.
Perhaps the year of the Linux desktop will be a Communist victory.
Deliberately falling behind in your own self-imposed technology war to own the Asians
I’m old enough to remember when the V-chip was going to be the perfect solution to the censorship problem.
Now it’s been relegated to Evil China CCP
this is super hilarious because it might actually just be protectionism for ARM cuz ARM vosts money but riscv doesnt
only someone who has something to gain from this would think this is a good idea cough ARM cough
I was just reading about RISC-V yesterday. Apparently Pine64 makes tablets that use the architecture but they are still basically in development mode for the time being:
https://pine64.com/product-category/pinetab/
I’ve got a PinePhone and I really like it so far (although it uses an ARM chip). It’s not quite up to par with mainstream phones in all regards, like the camera is kind of crappy and there are some software bugs but to be fair I was aware that it was still in beta when I bought it.
All the components are replaceable, and it even has kill switches for the mic/camera/etc on the back. My favourite part is that it runs KDE.
