back to article US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register

Chinese chip designer Sophgo, a suspected supplier of AI silicon to Huawei, has been added to the USA’s “Entity List” of orgs felt to represent a national security risk and therefore prohibited from working with American companies unless a license is issued to allow such dealings. Sophgo earned a certain notoriety in October …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    Trollface

    "RISC-V is freely available intellectual property"

    Well, at least we can be sure that China didn't need to steal that.

    1. FIA Silver badge

      Re: "RISC-V is freely available intellectual property"

      ...because there's no intelligent people in China?

      or no one other than the Chinese have ever... erm... 'built upon' the discoveries of others?

  2. An_Old_Dog Silver badge
    Facepalm

    An Unnamed Company was Added to the List

    So the US government thinks that by not naming the company, that the name will be kept secret -- and that any interested parties cannot simply use an appropriate program from the diff stable to figure it out?!

  3. amajadedcynicaloldfart Bronze badge

    As ever

    the fucking yanks see ghosts everywhere.

    Here is one that I have posted before.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67662779

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