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Why is it any more fringe than, say, hoping for an ARM laptop?
by garmaine 9y ago
Why is it any more fringe than, say, hoping for an ARM laptop?
- wmf 9y agoARM laptops already exist BTW using smartphone SoCs. The R&D has already been done and paid for. A RISC-V server or desktop processor would have to be created essentially from scratch.
- phkahler 9y ago>> A RISC-V server or desktop processor would have to be created essentially from scratch. I'd love to see AMD or Intel build a chip on the RISC-V instruction set and use all their existing infrastructure around that. I would not be surprised it they could achieve higher benchmark performance than their x86 offerings. For someone else to achieve the same level of performance will take a while, but there are multiple groups working on it.
- ansible 9y agoThere are a few ARM based Chromebooks. In many cases, it isn't too hard to put regular Linux on them.
- zokier 9y agoBecause ARM laptops have been shipping for years, while there isn't even a single RISC-V SoC out there that could even hypothetically be used in a laptop.