Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V
by AussieWog93 on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:01PM
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>Having worked extensively with both Nordic and Chinese chips, what makes Nordic win is the ease of development
This seems to be the norm for Chinese chips in general.
Poor documentation, even in the native Chinese, no official dev boards, sometimes no JTAG debuggers, random bugs, just a whole lot of bullshit to deal with as a foreign developer.
I suspect it might be a cultural thing; developers are less prone to pouring over data
sheets and more prone to asking their friends/colleagues to introduce them to someone who works at one of the microcontroller companies. (This is just a hunch, and I could be completely wrong.)
This seems to be the norm for Chinese chips in general.
Poor documentation, even in the native Chinese, no official dev boards, sometimes no JTAG debuggers, random bugs, just a whole lot of bullshit to deal with as a foreign developer.
I suspect it might be a cultural thing; developers are less prone to pouring over data sheets and more prone to asking their friends/colleagues to introduce them to someone who works at one of the microcontroller companies. (This is just a hunch, and I could be completely wrong.)