Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU
jaxxed@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
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?
zlatko@programming.dev 1 week ago
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.
jaxxed@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
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.