Comment on Developing world needs an alternative to Chinese tech
3arn0wl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
BRISCS nations are going RISC-V - for varied reasons - as quickly as they can (and the EU may well follow suit).
China is a huge producer - if not THE biggest manufacturer - of electronics.
Those two points alone suggest a RISC-V revolution, in BRISCS and 3rd-World economies. RISC-V cores have been used in microcontroller roles for a while now, and we’re now seeing RISC-V chips being used as primary processors.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Aren’t those chips more efficient as well?
bamboo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They can be but it’s up to the hardware implementation moreso than the ISA.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
What could be the real impact if suddenly the BRICS and other emerging countries turned to that architecture?
3arn0wl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would mean the dinishing of market share of proprietary US software and hardware.
Linux and *BSD run on RISC-V. RISC-V devices will be shipped with an open source OS and apps. Android users won’t even notice / care about what chip is inside their tech.
And it puts app lock-in to the test.