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The
comments come after Reuters last week reported that a growing
group of U.S. lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration
to impose export control restrictions around RISC-V, the
open-source technology overseen by the RISC-V International
nonprofit foundation. RISC-V technology can be used as an
ingredient to create chips for smartphones or artificial
intelligence.
Major U.S. firms such as Qualcomm and Alphabet's Google have
embraced RISC-V, but so too have Chinese firms such as Huawei
Technologies Co, which the U.S. lawmakers argue constitutes a
national security concern.
In a blog post, Calista Redmond, chief of RISC-V International,
which coordinates work among companies on the technology, said
RISC-V is no different than other open technology standards like
Ethernet, which helps computers on the internet talk with each
other.
"Contemplated actions by governments for an unprecedented
restriction in open standards will have the consequence of
diminished access to the global marketplace of products,
solutions, and talent," Redmond wrote. "Bifurcating on the
standards level would lead to a world of incompatible solutions
that duplicate effort and close off markets."
Redmond wrote that RISC-V has drawn contributions in equal
measure from North America, Europe and Asia. The standards
published by the foundation are not a full blueprint for a chip
and do not give any party more information about how to make a
chip than what is available from proprietary chip technology
firms such as Arm Holdings.
"The only difference is that the marketplace is allowed to use
these standards without proprietary licenses from a controlling
company," Redmond wrote. "Having access to open standards allows
companies to innovate faster and spend their time creating
differentiated products, rather than trying to reinvent the
wheel."
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by
Matthew Lewis)
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