It’s really funny to me how so many people are going surprised pikachu over China tech not being crap.

They started with basic manufacturing until no one could beat them, stole everything they could to close the tech gap. But behind that, invested massively into education to the point that they are producing more engineers than the rest of the world combined. They may not be super creative but they are competent enough. Also if one in a million is a genius the “West” has 800 but China has 1500. So yes, of course now their domestic designs will catch up or surpass western ones.

Basically China spent the last 50 years systematically going through the techtree and minmaxing their spies, while the west just kind of aimlessly clicked around.

Amid the DeepSeek surge, smaller firms using AI may turn to RISC-V chips for cost savings. The report notes that even if a 10 million yuan RISC-V setup delivers 30% of NVIDIA or Huawei’s performance, purchasing three could still be more affordable.

Yup. If these guys come up with a half-decent CPUs they won’t have to pay the ARM, Intel or AMD premium, they can significantly decrease the cost of compute in a whole lot of sectors and use cases. And if they open source and / or sell those chips to everyone…

And I think it’s just a matter of time for them to develop those designs.

Uh oh, trump will declare RiscV and by extension Open Source/Hardware, as the enemy soon.

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