They've been spending tens of billions a year in their chip industry.
and, honestly, RISC-V is the right place to spend it. RISC has super powers.
Yeah, RISC is good.
Triple the speed of a Pentium..
Edit: it was triple I said double originally. I'm sorry for my indiscretion.
This could be great news. RISC5 could be great for diversity in the processor space. I at will take investment on the scale that only a national investment like China can invest to get it to compete.
Does China have the Fab capability to build these, or do they need foreign production?
They have been making their own x86 knock-offs for a while now, but not at the same scale as the "regular" - i.e. they'd been doing it at 14nm or so, so less efficient.
I don't know if they have better fab process since then, and for how big a scale.
Their x86 fabs are producing a 5 yr old Intel node, and with unknown defect rate. This is about getting down to the modern node size to (eventually) to get competitive with the two major ARM nodes.
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