America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring
America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring
The company is growing stronger—and less vulnerable
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The assassination attempts on China's tech industry in general backfired a lot already
13 0 ReplyAssassination attempts on Russia’s economy have been similarly . The imperial core is speedrunning its decline.
18 0 ReplyThe problem with assassin the Russian economy, is to do it faster then it commit suicide.
4 0 ReplyIf by commit suicide you mean grow faster than any G7 economy making Russia 4th largest economy then sure.
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Which also had the effect on pushing RISC-V development forward, which is great.
12 0 ReplyAre there even any advantages to it over ARM?
2 0 ReplyAt a technical level it's still young and most likely not as powerful as other similar platforms, but on a legal level the instruction set is an open standard and royaltee-free, so it can't be embargoed through licensing like ARM or other instruction sets.
I'm happy to see more openness in hardware.
17 0 ReplyWait so ARM isn't open? Ok now it makes sense
2 0 ReplyNo it's not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.
9 0 ReplyI still don't understand. Is it like RHEL (they give you all the source code) or more like Windows?
1 0 ReplyIt's neither. It's a specification that you can use to build your own chip.
So it's more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.
8 0 ReplyToo technical; didn't understand. I prefer RISC-V at this point
1 0 ReplyHow can you have a preference if you don't understand?
3 0 ReplyYou didn't say it's fully open-source so RISC-V is better no matter how "open" ARM is
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Closed source but if you pay enough you can get the source
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