[rapiz]

This is part of China's effort to have its own IC industry. The project is now owned by BOSC, Beijing Open Source Chip Research Instiutute[1]

[1] https://www.bosc.ac.cn/yjyjs

[DeathArrow]

China has a very diverse mix of technology. They use x86, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V and others. I don't know if splitting the efforts in many different directions makes sense.

[snek_case]

China is a huge country with a much bigger hardware industry than the US. Seems to me it's normal not everyone there is working with the same technology. It's just a massive number of different companies doing different things.

That being said, RISC-V is gaining a lot of traction. I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to become a real challenge to ARM in the next five years. You just need mature tooling and better cores. Probably also need a wider variety of smaller cores for embedded applications available at the right price points.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

I had more luck understanding this by going to https://www.bosc.ac.cn/ and clicking on EN from there.

Open Source Chips to Benefit the World

There is no EN on any deeper, direct linked url. But once chosen from the top it sticks.

[RobotToaster]

It's impressive how quickly they seem to have embraced open source.

[pstoll]

You mean the “contributing” part of OSS?

[LoganDark]

Surely they understand there's no point in trying to keep it closed-source considering they're, well, China.

[totalhack]

Was gonna flag this same thing. Maybe their hoping for help from the open source community?