Alibaba, Tencent enlisted to help China build RISC-V chips

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Alibaba, Tencent enlisted to help sanction-weary China build RISC-V chips

Alibaba and Tencent have already launched their own Arm-based chips, but there is apparently trepidation at both companies about Arm's future in China.

The newspaper reported that Alibaba and China's ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, already had plans underway to develop RISC-V chips for AI and datacenter applications. This goes beyond what we previously knew about Alibaba's RISC-V plans, which were mostly limited toOne senior engineer at T-head, Alibaba's chip division, told the newspaper that the company's goal is to replace its Arm chips"in our most advanced products.

While one Chinese official described the consortium's RISC-V efforts as being on the"right track," the official added that the ISA'sChina's creation of the Beijing Open Source Chip Research Institute is the country's latest step in embracing RISC-V as a way to escape

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