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I'm not sure about that. What matters most is the ecosystem. That's why people pay for x86 and ARM. The ecosystem that RISC-V offers will need to be at least as
by nickpsecurity 10y ago
I'm not sure about that. What matters most is the ecosystem. That's why people pay for x86 and ARM. The ecosystem that RISC-V offers will need to be at least as good or good enough for whatever users. They'll also have to be successful with lower volume despite high costs of ASIC development. Finally, remember that OpenSPARC was around for a long time with open-source implementations like Leon3 that mostly went nowhere outside established companies already using them.
I'm not so optimistic. I wish the best for them but precedents go against it.
- protomyth 10y agoOpenSPARC suffers from the same problem as most of the other alternate chips: I cannot buy a motherboard for a PC case and start going. Dev boards are cool but $1,000 motherboards[1] is not going to fly. When these alternate architectures get to the point I can buy a motherboard at a $500 or below price, I'll believe they are golden. I really want it to succeed, but PowerPC and POWER have left their scars. 1) Talos™ Mainboard for $3,700 for a POWER 8
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThe reason those boards you buy are cheap is theres a boatload of people who pay for them. Need quite a bit of volume to get a custom, high-performance ASIC and board down to a few hundred. The problem is on the demand side. The suppliers would have to come up with millions of dollars for development and advertising then risk losing most of it. Most that do go bankrupt or get acquired after they fail (esp in FPGA or accelerator space).