Comment by phkahler
4 hours ago
>> > attempts by some incumbent ISAs to lobby the US government to curb the uptake of RISC-V
>> Is this real? Or FUD?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/20/risc-v-dese...
Somebody trying to influence Washington seems to want it shut down.
> https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/20/risc-v-dese...
From the article:
> The risks aren’t theoretical. A new report found that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI firm, has been responsible for producing malicious code in roughly half the sensitive cybersecurity incidents analyzed on GitHub. If China is willing to leverage open software in ways that harm global security, why would we assume open-source hardware will be treated differently?
> A single compromised RISC-V chip in a power grid, data center or weapons system could hand Beijing a quiet path into critical infrastructure. The more these chips spread, the greater the odds a vulnerability becomes a weapon.
I think the concern here is more with the implementations (coming out of China) than the instruction set itself. Or perhaps if there is some Verilog/VHDL code out there with backdoors, and that then gets baked into chips.
Thanks. That's exactly the kind of subliminal lobbying that I was alluding to. I don't think it's FUD at all.