A wider bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is asking the Biden administration about its plans to respond to China’s rising use of RISC-V chip design technology after Reuters last month reported on growing concerns about it in both houses of Congress.
[…]Now, a broader group of 18 lawmakers that includes five Democrats is asking the Biden administration for how it plans to prevent China “from achieving dominance in … RISC-V technology and leveraging that dominance at the expense of U.S. national and economic security,” according to a letter the group sent to Raimondo and seen by Reuters.
A rather shortsighted take, and without even looking I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these lawmakers have chip factories or whatever in their districts.
RISC-V isn’t “chip design technology”, it’s an open source ISA and honestly this just shows how uninformed and out of touch politicians are.
It’s not that short sighted.
Europe let the US take the lead in chip development, and they’re trying to build a base now. The US let manufacturing leave to China, and now the US is unable to rebuild that base.
Granted they’re idiots and doing it for the wrong reasons, but they could fumble their way to something good.
There, fixed.