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.
FFS. I’m literally in the process of learning digital circuit design, anything towards RISC-V because I love open source and intend to contribute HDL.
I’m willing to bet that there’s some ARM and/or x86 lobbyist influence here as RISC-V is a huge threat established ISAs that rely on licensing IP with burdensome restrictions, rather than innovating for their business models.