misk@sopuli.xyz to Hardware@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoThe only Chinese chipmaker with an x86 license releases surprisingly modern new chips made with a mystery process node — Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU launches with eight cores, 3.7GHz clocks, PCIe 4.0, and DDRwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down11
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkThe only Chinese chipmaker with an x86 license releases surprisingly modern new chips made with a mystery process node — Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU launches with eight cores, 3.7GHz clocks, PCIe 4.0, and DDRwww.tomshardware.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Hardware@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoDid you miss the part about China? They don’t give a shit about patents. In their view patents only exist for their companies to copy and profit from.
minus-squarepastermil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoWhile they might not give a shit about patent, they do need the design detail, something only the licensor could give. Without it, they’d be spending their precious time reverse engineering with no guarantee of success. RISC-V, on the other hand, have the design documents available to public.
minus-squareLobreeze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoReverse engineer is a strange way to spell “steal”
minus-squarepastermil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoReverse engineering is reverse engineering. It is in fact legal in most places. Yes, there are differences between unlawfully acquiring design document and creating one thru collection of perceivable data
Did you miss the part about China? They don’t give a shit about patents.
In their view patents only exist for their companies to copy and profit from.
While they might not give a shit about patent, they do need the design detail, something only the licensor could give.
Without it, they’d be spending their precious time reverse engineering with no guarantee of success.
RISC-V, on the other hand, have the design documents available to public.
Reverse engineer is a strange way to spell “steal”
Reverse engineering is reverse engineering. It is in fact legal in most places.
Yes, there are differences between unlawfully acquiring design document and creating one thru collection of perceivable data