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The US fears that China is using RISC-V against the US.
In a new episode of the U.S.-China tech showdown, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is facing pressure from some lawmakers to limit the ability of U.S. companies to work on open chip technology widely used in China. Such a decision could upend existing global technological cooperation.
We are talking about RISC-V technology, which is open source, competing with expensive proprietary technologies from the British company Arm Holdings. RISC-V can be used as a key element for creating smartphone chips or advanced processors for artificial intelligence.
Some lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to take action on RISC-V, citing national security concerns. Lawmakers have expressed concerns that Beijing is exploiting a culture of open cooperation among U.S. companies to promote its own semiconductor industry, which could undermine the current U.S. leadership in chips and help China modernize its military. The comments were the first serious step towards imposing restrictions on the work of American companies on RISC-V.
Representative Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, said the Commerce Department should "require any American citizen or company to obtain an export license before engaging with Chinese entities on RISC-V technology."
Such calls for regulation of RISC-V are the latest episode in the fight between the US and China over chip technology, which escalated last year due to broad export restrictions .
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using RISC-V to circumvent American dominance in the intellectual property required for chip design. Americans should not support China's technology strategy, which serves to degrade American export control laws, " the House of Representatives said.
Risk-V is controlled by a Swiss non-profit foundation that coordinates the efforts of commercial companies to develop the technology. RSIC-V originates from the University of California, Berkeley laboratories and later received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Executives from China's Huawei Technologies have adopted RISC-V as the foundation for the development of their own chip industry . However, both the US and its allies are also actively using this technology. Qualcomm is working with a group of European car companies on RISC-V chips, and Google has said it will make its Android mobile operating system compatible with RISC-V chips.
If the Biden administration decides to regulate the participation of American companies in the Swiss fund in the form required by lawmakers, this may complicate the interaction of American and Chinese companies under open technical standards. The restrictions could also create obstacles to China's quest for self-sufficiency in chips, as well as efforts by the United States and Europe to create cheaper and more versatile chips.
In a new episode of the U.S.-China tech showdown, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is facing pressure from some lawmakers to limit the ability of U.S. companies to work on open chip technology widely used in China. Such a decision could upend existing global technological cooperation.
We are talking about RISC-V technology, which is open source, competing with expensive proprietary technologies from the British company Arm Holdings. RISC-V can be used as a key element for creating smartphone chips or advanced processors for artificial intelligence.
Some lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to take action on RISC-V, citing national security concerns. Lawmakers have expressed concerns that Beijing is exploiting a culture of open cooperation among U.S. companies to promote its own semiconductor industry, which could undermine the current U.S. leadership in chips and help China modernize its military. The comments were the first serious step towards imposing restrictions on the work of American companies on RISC-V.
Representative Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, said the Commerce Department should "require any American citizen or company to obtain an export license before engaging with Chinese entities on RISC-V technology."
Such calls for regulation of RISC-V are the latest episode in the fight between the US and China over chip technology, which escalated last year due to broad export restrictions .
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using RISC-V to circumvent American dominance in the intellectual property required for chip design. Americans should not support China's technology strategy, which serves to degrade American export control laws, " the House of Representatives said.
Risk-V is controlled by a Swiss non-profit foundation that coordinates the efforts of commercial companies to develop the technology. RSIC-V originates from the University of California, Berkeley laboratories and later received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Executives from China's Huawei Technologies have adopted RISC-V as the foundation for the development of their own chip industry . However, both the US and its allies are also actively using this technology. Qualcomm is working with a group of European car companies on RISC-V chips, and Google has said it will make its Android mobile operating system compatible with RISC-V chips.
If the Biden administration decides to regulate the participation of American companies in the Swiss fund in the form required by lawmakers, this may complicate the interaction of American and Chinese companies under open technical standards. The restrictions could also create obstacles to China's quest for self-sufficiency in chips, as well as efforts by the United States and Europe to create cheaper and more versatile chips.
