China boosts in silicon...

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You may have read it, China wants to get independent from Western chips and
software within 3 years....
[...]

Just for the files:

Huawei Makes Divorce From Android Official With HarmonyOS NEXT Launch
https://slashdot.org/story/24/10/23/222 ... ext-launch

Chinese Linux distributions:

Asianux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianux

Red Flag Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux

Deepin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepin

Sunwah Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwah_Linux

Ubuntu Kylin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin

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On XianShang CPU...

XiangShan High-Performance RISC-V Processors at Hot Chips 2024
https://www.servethehome.com/xiangshan- ... hips-2024/

Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/ ... ases_2025/

and

China starts Big Fund III spending: $47 billion for ecosystem and fab tools
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-indus ... -fab-tools

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China's SpacemiT develops 64-core RISC-V datacenter CPU — 12nm chip allegedly performs like a 10-year old Xen or Opteron but with higher core count
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... core-count

SpacemiT's VitalStone V100 processor is largely based on the OpenC910 project design, which is already used by Alibaba's T-Head Xuantie C910 processor.

The processor is made on a 12nm-class process technology and its maximum frequency is 2.50 GHz.

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Alibaba Launches C930 RISC-V Chip Amid Shift from Western Tech
https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/02/28/alib ... tern-tech/

Chinese government shifts focus from x86 and Arm CPUs, gov't promoting RISC-V chips heavily
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... sc-v-chips

Jim Keller joins ex-Intel chip designers in RISC-V startup focused on breakthrough CPUs
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... rough-cpus

Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/ ... v_project/

...these days it is about digital and silicon sovereignty.

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Felix86 emulator runs x86 Steam games on RISC-V CPU:

Steam gaming finally comes to RISC-V — AAA titles like The Witcher 3 and Crysis now playable thanks to revamped emulation tool
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... y-playable

MS Prism, Apple Rosetta, Felix86 - x86 emulation, the future?

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