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US-China tech war: RISC-V group says export ban on open-source chip standard would slow innovation
- The chief of RISC-V International says the open technology has drawn contributions in equal measure from North America, Europe and Asia
- A growing group of US lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to impose export control restrictions around RISC-V
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The chief executive of RISC-V International said on Monday that possible government restrictions on the open-source technology will slow down the development of new and better chips, holding back the global technology industry.
The comments come after Reuters last week reported that a growing group of US lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to impose export control restrictions around RISC-V, the open-source technology overseen by the RISC-V International non-profit foundation.
RISC-V technology can be used as an ingredient to create chips for smartphones or artificial intelligence.
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Major US firms such as Qualcomm and Alphabet’s Google have embraced RISC-V, but so too have Chinese firms such as Huawei Technologies, which the US lawmakers argue constitutes a national security concern.
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In a blog post, Calista Redmond, chief of RISC-V International, which coordinates work among companies on the technology, said RISC-V is no different than other open technology standards like Ethernet, which helps computers on the internet talk to each other.
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