China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future

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The RISC-V Summit is over - here's what you need to know

www.theregister.com, Dec. 09, 2021 – 

China's been scammed for billions by rogues in its chase to become a chip powerhouse, though ironically, a free, open-source CPU architecture is emerging as its best bet to create a powerful homegrown chip.

China was a winner at this week's RISC-V Summit, with many organizations introducing CPUs based on RISC-V, an open-source chip architecture sometimes called the Linux of chips. The government-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is on the US Entity List, and StarFive Technology released new RISC-V chip designs for PCs and servers.

The profile of RISC-V is growing with backing from companies including Apple, Intel, Google and Nvidia. And RISC-V development is especially picking up in China, with Alibaba in October opening code of the XuanTie custom-built processors based on RISC-V instruction, and is porting Android 10 to RISC-V ISA.

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