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Zen Soo 26/07/19 | Sth China Morning Post : "Alibaba Group unveiled its first self-developed chip processor, as Chinese companies move to seek self-sufficiency in the semiconductor industry amid the US-China trade war. Developed by Alibaba’s chip subsidiary Pingtouge, the Xuantie 910 processor is based on an open-source architecture called RISC-V, as opposed to the more commercially-used ARM architecture...
Alibaba is the parent company of the South China Morning Post. That Alibaba chose the RISC-V architecture for its new 16-core processor is also telling. RISC-V, being a globally-recognised open-source standard, is not affected by trade restrictions, allowing Chinese firms to use the architecture without having to commercially license from companies like ARM, which is subject to US technology bans like the one imposed on Huawei Technologies in May...
