[throwaway27448]

> The one benefit is that it doesn’t have Intel IME/AMT, AMD PSP or ARM TrustZone backdoors built-in, but I would be extremely surprised if the Chinese SpaceMiT CPU didn’t have Chinese backdoors of its own.

That seems worth paying for. How could china hurt me more than my own government?

[fmajid]

Yes, you have to decide in your threat model which is worse. There are people who’ve built entire systems on RISC-V FPGA soft cores like Bunnie Huang’s Precursor, but none fast enough to serve as a router.

[HDBaseT]

Yep. It's crazy how effective the US Gov has made it seem like China are the bad guys, when it was US/Israel all along.