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Some commercial advantage I'm not aware of? 1. No licensing cost upfront for tap-out. 2. Open source designs so you can even decrease tap-out costs further. A
by valarauca1 10y ago
Some commercial advantage I'm not aware of?
1. No licensing cost upfront for tap-out.
2. Open source designs so you can even decrease tap-out costs further. Allowing you to focus on the features you are selling.
3. Out of the box compiler support for GCC and LLVM.
4. Provided you stick with RISC-V one doesn't have to re-pay their software development cost every generation. Your compiled ELF's will still work. Software Development $$$ >>>> Hardware Tapout $$$.
5. Out of box compiler/debugger support. Not making your dev team adopt a new tool chain is a HUGE time saver and cannot be understated.
- BenoitP 10y ago> GCC and LLVM And two JVMs are on the way.
- tonyplee 10y agoNot sure it is really good deal for SOC company in US. For the past 10 years, I have been working for an ARM SOC company in US. More and more I see zero margin in ARM SOC especially - with $5-15 4 core 32, 64 bits ARM soc in the market. For Pi-zero, it is $5 for PCB with 512MB of RAM. There are no $ to be made in SOC HW and board. If there is any margin left, small ARM SOC vendors from China/Taiwan will quickly take them over and make sure nothing is left for US companies. For these reasons, I don't see anyone can make $ from making any HW SOC/board in US with ARM nor RISC-V type ISV.