[HN Gopher] China Is Building an Open National Chip Plan Around ...
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       China Is Building an Open National Chip Plan Around RISC-V
        
       Author : kosasbest
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2023-08-22 18:12 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
       | This might not be good for RISC-V in the future.
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       | If it becomes associated with Chinese computing, then it might
       | face more sanctions and roadblocks in the US and Europe.
        
       | mark_l_watson wrote:
       | I wrote here years ago that it is in every countries best
       | interest to do the following: 1. Be able to fab chips required to
       | run their infrastructure (business and military). 2. Either have
       | a home grown commercial operating system, or their own Linux
       | distro and required application software. 3. Maintain their own
       | unique culture and arts. 4. Have some degree of food
       | independence, even if it is an emergency only limited meat diet.
       | 
       | Small countries can only partially achieve this level of
       | independence, but all countries should try. I think the world is
       | even more beautiful with more diversity.
        
         | londons_explore wrote:
         | There would also be more wars. One of the big changes in the
         | 20th century is that now every country is interdependent on
         | every other, so going to war is even more costly for both
         | sides, being cut off from half the world's supply chains.
         | 
         | If you draw a chart of percentage of all humans alive who die
         | in war, there is a sudden dropoff around 1900.
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | this idea is so tremendously disconnected from the actual force
         | of movement every day that makes up the changing nation-states
         | for the last three thousand years.. ending with a beneficial
         | wish. it almost indicates a single brilliant mind is actually
         | pretty-useless when it comes to daily practical trade.
        
       | LatteLazy wrote:
       | Cutting them off from world supplies is a pain in the arse for
       | China in the short term, but a huge boon for them in the
       | medium/long term. Now there is a huge market and motivated
       | government. There is nothing magic about silicon that means China
       | won't master it given the time and motivation...
       | 
       | And given that the west either really needs AI to be worth a damn
       | (and a defendable advantage) or we're one step closer to the
       | Chinese century or whatever dramatic thing were calling it...
        
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