The article is impressiverly unable to describe what RISC-V actually is:
"At issue is RISC-V, pronounced "risk five," an open-source technology that competes with costly proprietary technology from British semiconductor and software design company Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F). RISC-V can be used as a key ingredient for anything from a smartphone chip to advanced processors for artificial intelligence."
Also, the lawmakers seems to lack a general understanding of how open source is developed, by whom and how it is being used. And what RISC-V is and what is really available:
"Representative Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House select committee on China, said in a statement to Reuters that the Commerce Department needs to "require any American person or company to receive an export license prior to engaging with PRC (People's Republic of China) entities on RISC-V technology."
Moving RISC-V International to Switzerland seems to have been a very prudent move.
https://riscv.org/about/
"Moving RISC-V International to Switzerland seems to have been a very prudent move."
Sad to say: very. Even trying to put a lid on RISC-V development by other nations, shows just 1 thing: a lack of understanding how open specifications work.
Low(er) performance implementations are free-for-all, and will stay so. That cat is out of the bag.
High-performance implementations may involve some "trade secret" sauce. But any non-US entity can apply secret sauce of their own. US export controls wouldn't slow that down in any meaningful way.
And China has a huge internal market. The US not as big. Both can sell products elsewhere.
So whatever may be proposed here (it's not clear if, or what), it would only shoot US companies in the foot. Chinese ones? Hardly.
But if US wants to build a bigger footgun: go ahead, make China's day.
A scary development. If they can argue that FOSS is "aiding adversaries", they'll target other major FOSS projects. Imagine getting arrested because you sent a patch to Postgresql.
"At issue is RISC-V, pronounced "risk five," an open-source technology that competes with costly proprietary technology from British semiconductor and software design company Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F). RISC-V can be used as a key ingredient for anything from a smartphone chip to advanced processors for artificial intelligence."
Also, the lawmakers seems to lack a general understanding of how open source is developed, by whom and how it is being used. And what RISC-V is and what is really available:
"Representative Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House select committee on China, said in a statement to Reuters that the Commerce Department needs to "require any American person or company to receive an export license prior to engaging with PRC (People's Republic of China) entities on RISC-V technology."
Moving RISC-V International to Switzerland seems to have been a very prudent move. https://riscv.org/about/