In a new front in the U.S.-China tech war, President Joe Biden's administration is facing pressure from some lawmakers to restrict American companies from working on a freely available chip technology widely used in China - a move that could upend how the global technology industry collaborates across borders.
  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    I was just reading about RISC-V yesterday. Apparently Pine64 makes tablets that use the architecture but they are still basically in development mode for the time being:

    https://pine64.com/product-category/pinetab/

    I've got a PinePhone and I really like it so far (although it uses an ARM chip). It's not quite up to par with mainstream phones in all regards, like the camera is kind of crappy and there are some software bugs but to be fair I was aware that it was still in beta when I bought it.

    All the components are replaceable, and it even has kill switches for the mic/camera/etc on the back. My favourite part is that it runs KDE.