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What’s the difference if that open source risc is manufactured in the same Chinese plant?

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More likely a fab in Taiwan than China.

You can run your RISC-V cores on an FPGA if you’re really paranoid. Of course, you’d be sacrificing performance.

It's not the RIC-V cores that would be the concern - 'tis the motherboards, NICs, etc...

Yeah, so everything would need to be open and manufactured in the US.

We have the fabs for it. Some are owned by defense contractors, too.

What if the NSA pressures the manufacturer?

every FPGA is far more closed and secretive about its internals than Intel ever has been about its CPUs.

The largest(?) FPGA brand Xilinx is owned by Intel now, so maybe it'll get better.

Altera was acquired by Intel.

Xilinx was not.

Because an FPGA’s internals is secret sauce...

Xilinx et al. are open enough about how their chips work imo. You are not going to find something like Intel ME on an FPGA.

They don't even let you use anything except their IDE tools, and even then they are tightly controlled, you have absolutely no idea if they contain an intel ME style firmware.

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