News China's First Domestic PCIe 5.0 Enterprise SSD Controller Enters Mass Production

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It's not stealing if it's open source.
The use of "open source" to describe RISC-V, by this article (and many others, on Toms and elsewhere), can be sort of misleading. RISC-V is an open ISA/standard, such that anyone can make a RISC-V CPU without paying any licensing. But you still need an actual chip design, which are not inherently open-source (although some open-source designs do exist I believe).

Plus, for an SSD controller you also need to design the PCIe and NAND interfaces, which are presumably not open source.

Whether this product involved the illegal use of any non-open IP, I have no idea.
 
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I would love it if Tomshardware.com would stop posting ccp propaganda. I have been visiting Tomshardware.com since 1999-2000. Only until recently has the focus leaned towards literally fake news pushed by the ccp.
 
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China seems already reached self suffieciency in micro chip industry, well done!

Stopping someone from from stealing your lunch doesn't mean you want or expect them to starve.

China has had some real innovative success but to do so they are having to work and invest.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/c...dollar41-billion-to-boost-fab-tool-production

Investing for innovation is tough.
It's China though so.... yeah. No.
 

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I would love it if Tomshardware.com would stop posting ccp propaganda. I have been visiting Tomshardware.com since 1999-2000. Only until recently has the focus leaned towards literally fake news pushed by the ccp.
Is it really propaganda if the taiwanese are also using it?
 
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