said that Beijing is accelerating efforts to curb its dependency on Western-owned technology.
Even more so, the policy guidance boosting the use of RISC-V chips could be released as soon as this month; however, the final date could change.
This proposition is being drafted by eight government bodies, which are included: Cyberspace Administration of China, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, The Ministry of Science and Technology, and China National Intellectual Property Administration.
The sources taking part in this declined to be named as the policy discussions were still under way. RISC-V is an open-source technology that has been used for the design of a large range of less-sophisticated chips starting with the ones you see used on a smartphone to CPUs that are used by artificial intelligence servers.
This also competes globally with proprietary and even more commonly used chip architecture technology that includes x86, also being dominated by the US firms Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, that include ARM developed by SoftBank Group-owned Arm Holdings.
Even more so, in China, state entities and research institutes also have embraced RISC-V chips in more recent times, as they observed that they are geopolitically neutral. Even more so, some of the positive effects that draw manufacturers to use them are the lower cost.
Their use in the country has also widened, triggering warily in the United States, also coming at a fraction between Washington and Beijing, over tech.
Moreover, Reuters reported in 2012 that some of the US lawmakers were putting pressure on the Biden administration to restrict American companies from working on the technology over concerns that Beijing was exploiting its open-source nature to advance theri own semiconductor industry.
Smaller companies that leverage the use of artificial intelligence such as DeepSeek could also turn to chips designed with RISC-V's architecture, said Sun Haitao, the manager from China Mobile System Integration. “Even if a RISC-V solution priced at 10 million yuan might only reach about 30% of the level of NVIDIA or Huawei, buying three sets means the overall cost might still be lower," he said. "I think this is a breakthrough point.”
