It bothers me more than it should that the company behind it's called Andes technology, names project after cities, their chips after native animals, yet wasn't founded in South America nor has a base or team over there.
ljlolel•4mo ago
Like Amazon or Patagonia
balamatom•4mo ago
It's called appelomancy. Comes from "appelication".
-Sent from my expecting someone to fly the Condor from Mysterious Cities of Gold into a datacenter
unixhero•4mo ago
For whom is this a problem?
dietr1ch•4mo ago
Isn't this undisguised cultural appropriation? They are using it to try distance themselves from the already crowded Taiwanese and Chinese industry, but seem to hold no ties to South America other than probably indirect mining.
I guess they felt they ran out of names to use, but it'd be cool to honour cultures beyond just stealing their names and symbols.
dlcarrier•4mo ago
As long as it isn't misappropriated, who cares? Countless companies in the Americas benefit from selling bubble tea, and now a Taiwanese company gets to benefit from a naming scheme.
Neither exchange harms the other party, instead we all benefit from sharing our cultures. It's not like they're growing cherimoyas in Taiwan and trying to pass them off as Chilean grown, or anything fraudulent like that.
cjs_ac•4mo ago
An important part of this announcement is that Andes Technology is a Taiwanese company. I'm aware that there are American companies producing RISC-V microcontrollers, but in terms of microprocessors, RISC-V was shaping up to be something that was only physically manufactured in China, and therefore a risky proposition in terms of geopolitics.
pjmlp•4mo ago
On the other hand, like FOSS OSes, it represents a way that countries can free themselves from current administration as geopolitics keep going into the bad direction.
It was a great decision to take RISC-V foundation outside USA.
ronsor•4mo ago
Isn't the biggest competitor to US-controlled x86 owned by ARM Ltd. based in the UK, not the US?
pjmlp•4mo ago
Kind of, ARM is no longer UK property so to speak, it is 90% owned by SoftBank, a Japanese holding.
dietr1ch•4mo ago
ljlolel•4mo ago
balamatom•4mo ago
-Sent from my expecting someone to fly the Condor from Mysterious Cities of Gold into a datacenter
unixhero•4mo ago
dietr1ch•4mo ago
I guess they felt they ran out of names to use, but it'd be cool to honour cultures beyond just stealing their names and symbols.
dlcarrier•4mo ago
Neither exchange harms the other party, instead we all benefit from sharing our cultures. It's not like they're growing cherimoyas in Taiwan and trying to pass them off as Chilean grown, or anything fraudulent like that.