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Huawei gets struck by the ban hammer again, now from ARM!

Djole123
22 hours ago, Djole123 said:

ARM doesn't make the chips, they only design the microarc. It is up to the semiconductor company (HiSilicon, Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek) to make them.

 

Since Huawei's licence got revoked, they cannot make new ARM based chips now.

This is true, HiSilicon etc. are only fabs right now building a licensed technology and improving it on the manufacturing level. Huawei could simply make the switch to the open source RISC-V ISA (instruction set architecture) developed by berkeley, which most high-end companies are investigating and building prototypes upon. Yes it was made in america, but no license required.

 

Should be an easy port from ARM to RISC-V since it is essentially the same, but simpler. Maybe Huawei is now forced to kick off true RISC-V development

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