China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-publish-policy-boost-risc-v-chip-use-nationwide-sources-2025-03-04/

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Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

It's not at all surprising that China is moving towards RISC-V, but we still have to see mainstream RISC-V solutions that can come even close to existing ARM and x86 solutions.

"Even if a RISC-V solution priced at 10 million yuan might only reach about 30% of the level of NVIDIA or Huawei, buying three sets means the overall cost might still be lower," he said during the event. "I think this is a breakthrough point."

This seems more like an aspirational statement and I am not sure how a RISC-V CPU would compete with Nvidia in enterprise GPUs (the ARM CPUs developed/used by Nvidia for such solutions are arguably a small part of the total cost of the solution).

fieryhamster007@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This is good for the entire world. A new architecture getting support from large players to assist in finally wiping out the x86 chips.

Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

What's inherently good about "wiping out x86 chips?" Why does this even matter?