Efforts by the Chinese Academy of Sciences form part of Beijing’s push to reduce reliance on foreign semiconductor technology.
  • @[email protected]
    20•4 months ago

    Can’t wait. How exciting would it be if China did to the chip market what they did with electric cars?

    What’s the support for RISC-V like for your favorite distro?

    NixOS has some preliminary support from a handful of people, so that’s a good start. I would expect to have to put in some significant work to daily drive it though.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      12•4 months ago

      I expect we’ll also see a lot of work on making Linux software work with RISCV coming out of China in the near future.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•4 months ago

      My favorite distro is Gentoo, which of course being probably the most mature and popular source-based distro, there’s support for various architectures including RISC-V.

    • @[email protected]
      5•4 months ago

      How exciting would it be if China did to the chip market what they did with electric cars?

      Not a question of “if.” Only a question of “when.”

  • 矛⋅盾
    16•4 months ago

    I actually had a double-take - open source. OPEN SOURCE! I mean, yeah, it’ll still have to be down to whoever has production capabilities, but it’s still exciting.