Warner: BIS should be wary of open-source chip infrastructure

U.S. companies “may inadvertently be ceding U.S. technology advantages” to China through their participation in open-source ecosystems and standards-development organizations, Senate Intelligence ranking member Mark Warner (D-VA) warned Bureau of Industry and Security chief Jeffrey Kessler. Warner, in a Sept. 30 letter to the under secretary of Commerce for industry and security, flagged China’s prioritization of commercializing RISC-V-based chips. RISC-V is an instruction set architecture (ISA) -- which tells a computer’s hardware and software how to communicate -- that is...