Reuters previously published an article saying that RISC-V technology will become a new battlefield in the technology war between China and the United States . Many U.S. politicians have urged the Biden administration to take action on RISC-V on the grounds of national security and called on the Biden administration to take action on RISC-V related technologies. export restrictions.
On October 10, the RISC-V International Foundation published an article titled " RISC-V: An open standard supported by a global community that provides open computing for everyone ." Three key reasons why RISC-V is strategically important are cited:
- Open standards have been critical to technology innovation, adoption and growth for decades
- Open standards create opportunities and stimulate growth for a wide range of stakeholders (employment, consumers, research, academia, industry, etc.)
- RISC-V is a defined open standard computing instruction set architecture
Foundation CEO Calista Redmond stated in the article that RISC-V will continue to exist. RISC-V is an open standard that draws on meaningful contributions from around the world. As a global standard, RISC-V is not controlled by any single company or country. and emphasized:
The development of the RISC-V specification is based on non-proprietary contributions or publicly cultivated contributions from RISC-V members evenly distributed across North America, Europe, and Asia. RISC-V International does not provide chip designs, open source cores, proprietary IP or implementations, but publishes a set of commonly used global open standards. These published standards contain no more information than the published information for proprietary architectures. The only difference is that the market can use these standards without obtaining an exclusive license from the holding company. Competition does not occur at the standards level, but at the implementation level.
RISC-V offers companies around the world tremendous potential to participate in the rapidly growing semiconductor sector. Limiting the adoption of RISC-V by companies, foundries, governments, and research institutions will prevent them from benefiting from the open standard they themselves funded and created, while allowing global competitors to get ahead in their own implementations.
Access to open standards allows companies to innovate faster and spend their time creating differentiated products rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Just as companies around the world are adopting Ethernet, HTTPS, JPEG and USB standards, we are seeing a similar trend with RISC-V as an open standard. RISC-V's flexibility, scalability, and extensibility provide developers with unparalleled design freedom.
More details can be found on the official blog .