| ▲ | Chyzwar 6 hours ago |
| It is Chinese companies looking for ARM alternative that push this otherwise mediocre ISA. It is possible that ARM based CPUs will start eating x86 market slowly. See snapdragon X2 and upcoming Nvidia CPU. Maybe in 10 years new computers will be ARM based and a lot of IoT will run on risc-5. |
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| ▲ | topspin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| "It is Chinese companies looking for ARM alternative" The V in RISC-V represents iteration of the ISA, over the last 46 years, most of which occurred in the US, mainly at Berkeley. |
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| ▲ | avadodin 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | They push it to save a couple nickels per core on the ARM licenses, not out of nationalistic fervor. And it is the Chinese doing it because virtually 100% of all chips are made in China and Taiwan. | |
| ▲ | charcircuit 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Your comment is appealing to fallacies such as it being old so it's good or that it was made by a prestigious university. It's not like those early iterations were commercially produced and they learned off of real world usage. For the people who criticize the ISA, saying that it is old will not change their mind. | | |
| ▲ | topspin 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Maybe. People are free to partake in whatever cognitive misadventures they wish. I merely cite the incontrovertible fact that Berkeley RISC predates essentially all of the modern economic history of China, and also the rise of ARM. It came from academe, for better or worse, and for whatever purpose these academics had or or have, and that is all anyone can truthfully say about its pedigree. The rest is just interweb bullshit. |
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| ▲ | aappleby 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why "mediocre"? I've written production assembly language for a half-dozen different processor architectures and RISC-V is my favorite by far. |
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| ▲ | bobmcnamara 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Really? Didn't China pirate the entire ARM China company and start spamming cores like Star1 |
