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.
RISC-V being open doesn't mean all implementations using it have to be, though
There's nothing stopping a manufacturer from putting their own Intel Management Engine equivalent in a RISC-V CPU
You are correct. I though it was copyleft GPL something.
Thanks for bringing it into my attention. :)
The simplest risc-v implementations don't need microcode at all.