T-HEAD is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alibaba, one of China's largest tech companies. Over the past few years, T-HEAD has created a line of RISC-V cores. Alibaba seems to have two motivations for pushing RISC-V. On one hand, the company stands to benefit from creating cost effective chips optimized for areas it cares about, like IoT endpoints and edge computing. On the other, Alibaba almost certainly wants to reduce its dependence on foreign imports. RISC-V is an open instruction set, and isn't...