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If javascript frameworks is patented then yes, you can. For reference ARM big little scheduler is patented[1], you need to license from ARM if you use any of their big little design. RISC-V under BSD license might change this.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9710309

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If push comes to shove, why would you expect China to respect a set of patents that strangle its economic growth?

Because that would result in a more devastating response from the side that holds patents. If china stops respecting international trade laws and agreements, other nations will hurt china's interests in return. Given the scale of the things, the weak spots will be found inevitably.

Judging from China's policies towards Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong, I think China isn't very worried about foreign censure.

There is a difference. Nobody in the first world really cares about Uighurs or Hong Kong. However, there are quite a handful of parties who do care about patents (and resulting profits).

China has been pilfering intellectual property from labs & private companies via APTs for the last couple of years: what are the handful of parties who care about patents going to do - write a strongly worded letter? If China decides it wants to get the latest ARM design and/or ISA in the future, do you doubt they can acquire them? Sure, they won't be able to call it "ARM" but you can bet it will be compatible[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_Peri#Fiat_Panda_cop...

They wouldn't be able to sell products with this 'acquired' architecture to anyone. Just ask how Huawey sales are doing in US and Europe.

For internal market, no, but they will have problems selling the pirate copies to the rest of the world. Most rich states do respect intellectual property.

(1) What you linked does not appear to be an ARM patent. (2) Even if it were, lack of big/little scheduling is hardly going to bring China's homegrown chip market to it's knees. And that's assuming the patent is ironclad and can't be worked around.

The bigger question is more, what use is a homegrown chip market if no countries in the world are buying your chips?

True, if US companies are disallowed from giving licenses to Chinese companies, then likely the US would also block import of competing Chinese CPUs.

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