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A team from China’s top government research academy pledged to produce this year a processor based on the open-source chip-design architecture RISC-V, as Beijing advances its semiconductor self-reliance drive amid escalating US restrictions.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will be able to deliver its XiangShan open-source central processing unit in 2025, wrote Bao Yungang, deputy director at the academy’s Institute of Computing Technology, in a Weibo post on Sunday.
Is the article/translation conflating the open source ISA with the chip itself, or will this actually be an open source chip?
I had the same thought, but it's actually open source, from what I understand--here's the GitHub repo for the project. Also see my other comment which has the full text of the article.
That's cool they made it open source and all, but there is an absolutely zero percent chance any of us will make one of these on our own. Neat for validating the code, though.