Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design

A key figure in in China’s drive to develop processors based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture has said the project will deliver in 2025, perhaps with a design that could be a datacenter contender. The prospect of a 2025 debut appeared on Sunday in a post to Chinese social media service Weibo, penned by Yungang Bao of …

[3arn0wl]

Xinchuang - "China 2025"

I applaud these efforts to produce a more performant RISC-V chip. I also admire the decision to publish the design.

It's the Chinese New Year at the end of January… and there's every chance we'll see new silicon and hardware announced, like the Roma 3 laptop.

[Natalie Gritpants Jr]

"hasn’t progressed as quickly as hoped and argues that’s because developing high-end chips is hard."

If you think that's hard, try verifying it. If you think verifying high-end chips is hard, try debugging a failing test

[Bruce Hoult]

Re: "hasn’t progressed as quickly as hoped "

China does actually have some high performance chips already, and people who know how to develop and verify and debugs them.

LoongArch, for example. Or Allwinner and Rockchip. The RK3588 is a pretty decent chip.

[jtmaher]

Re: "hasn’t progressed as quickly as hoped "

I don't know why you're getting down-voted. As a US citizen, I have been aware of LoongArch for the past thirteen years, since I read about Richard Stallman using a LoongArch machine as his daily driver. Also, my favorite text editor, VS Codium, has a LoongArch build available.

[kuiash]

Re: "hasn’t progressed as quickly as hoped "

I don't get the down-votes either. I've finished a multi-part stint over a coupla years at "massive Chinese mobile company" and these guys are determined.

They're not looking at tech and thinking "how can we clone this". They're reading it like a text book and saying "How do we go one step further".

I noticed this trend in Physics decades ago. Not only are the Chinese determined they've got money and smarts too.

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

A lot of these articles strike me as the authors being in a state of denial about where RISC-V is headed, constantly peppering their articles with "ifs" and "maybes" instead of "eventually."

People denied open source would ever be the success it has become, too, once upon a time...

[Anonymous Coward]

Open source software is not open source ISA is not open source hardware is not open source implementation.

[fg_swe]

ARM

The British are nervous their already brittle economy will be devoided of their champion ARM.

[john.jones.name]

power and influence dear leader

[fg_swe]

Well Done China ! Now

...please complement that with a diplomatic friendship campaign. Become friends with your neighbours, instead of beating them up. We know you are mighty, no need to threaten violence. Respect borders and commonly accepted sea zones.

Then maybe we can live happily ever after ?

[fg_swe]

India, China, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Phillipines, Malaysia, Japan

Imagine what they could do, if they cooperated in systems engineering ? So many hard working people with a long tradition !

A Linux computer based on a microprocessor without a shady "management engine" ? Fully open source down to each transistor ?