>China chip designers say Beijing goals impossible without US tech >Chinese chip designers, whose business has flourished under Beijing's desire for a homegrown semiconductor industry, are warning it will be impossible to meet national targets for a viable, independent sector without access to U.S. technology. >"There are alternatives in China, but the gap in technology is too big," said an executive from one of China's leading artificial intelligence chipmakers, which relies on U.S. technology for chip design. "If we lose access to U.S. software or can no longer receive updates, our chip development will run into a dead end."
>A senior executive from Shanghai-based NextVPU, an AI chipmaker founded by former Advanced Micro Devices engineers, echoed his concerns. "Without updates from American software providers, China's push to develop its own chips will hit a wall," he told the Nikkei Asian Review. >"We would use whatever chip equipment and materials we have locally if their performances were good enough," said a manager from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co., China's top contract chipmaker. "But we still need [American] equipment, materials, IPs and chip design software. It's not likely for any of the chipmakers in the world... to get rid of American vendors soon." asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-chip-designers-say-Beijing-goals-impossible-without-US-tech
Enjoy clinging to a dead architecture as the rest of the world moves forward, Zhang.
Jordan Baker
based
Jose Parker
>RISC >dead arch
summer is truly here
Adrian Cook
Shut the fuck up, boomer. There are no RISC server grade CPUs, there are no smartphone SoCs, only low-power chips powering routers and IoT stuff. RISC is irrelevant compared to ARM.
David Perry
For now. It can overcome.
Carson Allen
>f-f-for now... It c-can overcome. Okay Wang, sloppy attempt, minus 5 social credit points. No bubble tea for you.
