It was a decent little talk this one. Now that we are seeing RVA23 chips available we are starting to at least see a lot of software packages actively compiled for the platform. They aren't optimized much at all but they do run.

I am cautiously optimistic about the future of RISC-V. It is likely to start biting at the heals of ARM in another 5 years or so, and having no licensing fees makes it very attractive in that sense. Qualcomm and Apple will be very interesting in avoiding as many ARM licensing fees as possible even if initially in embedded systems. But it also allows for a lot of hardware to be locked down just like ARM and so it might not be so great for the end users. Time will tell.

All I know is that I look for the seeing Apple Silicon 2 launching in 2036 using this stuff. ;)

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random3 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can you elaborate on

> But it also allows for a lot of hardware to be locked down just like ARM

	▲	Joel_Mckay 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Many of the underlying IP areas of RISK-V advanced features are not public implementations. Yet there are still a lot of great projects around, that may end up in China grey market chip fabs (C950) at some point. https://github.com/vortexgpgpu/vortex ARM64/AArch64 is about constrained consistency, but most RISCV standards groups still fail to recognize their ISA version fragmentation was a serious mistake. So no, it won't exist outside niche use-cases until the kids stop arguing over what RISCV even means in a general end-user context (BOOM flags, RVA23, etc.) =3
	▲	not-a-llm 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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JSR_FDED 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought Apple has a special deal with ARM as they were an early investor?

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pantalaimon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We still have to see a RISC-V implementation that comes even close to the performance of ARM

	▲	rwmj 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Rivos was competitive. Sadly bought by Meta and "disappeared" into the company.

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SanjayMehta 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

5 years ago there was a req on the Apple job site for engineers familiar with RISC-V.

https://riscv.org/blog/apple-exploring-risc-v-hiring-risc-v-...

	▲	crote an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It would be more surprising if Apple wasn't exploring RISC-V - even if only for use in auxiliary chips.
	▲	throawayonthe 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		tbf apple does a bunch of embedded programming too