Yeah, that’s fair the claims about performance are sensational. The part of the article I linked that I thought was interesting was that there does appear to be a serious push to start using risc-v architecture in China.
I agree that designing and manufacturing chips is an enormous challenge, but it’s not an insurmountable problem either. If China starts devoting resources towards this at state level we’ll almost certainly see chips that can rival what Apple achieved with M1 in the near future. This is a matter of national security for China, and that translates into effectively unlimited resources being devoted to solving the problem of having a domestic chip design.
Yeah, that’s fair the claims about performance are sensational. The part of the article I linked that I thought was interesting was that there does appear to be a serious push to start using risc-v architecture in China.
I agree that designing and manufacturing chips is an enormous challenge, but it’s not an insurmountable problem either. If China starts devoting resources towards this at state level we’ll almost certainly see chips that can rival what Apple achieved with M1 in the near future. This is a matter of national security for China, and that translates into effectively unlimited resources being devoted to solving the problem of having a domestic chip design.