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Issues you mention have nothing to do with RISC-V ISA. RISC-V Is just open source ISA, hopefulĺy without any patent issues. Nobody is going develop open sou
by Nokinside 9y ago
Issues you mention have nothing to do with RISC-V ISA.
RISC-V Is just open source ISA, hopefulĺy without any patent issues.
Nobody is going develop open source high performance RISC-V processor architecture IP and give the design away free. You pay licenses and royalties just like before.
- tyingq 9y agoThe RISC-V BOOM project looks like it might do something like that. Or am I missing something?
- Nokinside 9y agoBOOM is something like that. But it's essentially prototype reference design that is automatically compiled to 45 nm (10-year old process platform).
- mjevans 9y agoWhat they have to do with the ISA is making implementations of this instruction set common and worth owning for non-hobby toy reasons outside of companies or large projects doing embedded systems development. THAT is what will drive the network effect for success, low prices, and making it a commodity that can be worked on outside of simulated environments.