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When RISC-V was first coming out, the Berkeley folks published a position paper: Instruction Sets Should Be Free: The Case For RISC-V https://www2.eecs.ber
by CalChris 8y ago
When RISC-V was first coming out, the Berkeley folks published a position paper:
Instruction Sets Should Be Free: The Case For RISC-V
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-146.html
ARM published a response:
The Case for Licensed Instruction Sets
http://www.linleygroup.com/mpr/article.php?id=11268
Unfortunately that argument is behind a pay wall. Perhaps it should have been titled The Licensed Case for Licensed Instruction Sets.
- thrillgore 8y ago"To hear why ARM is great, you need to pay a fee first." I can't help but laugh at how ARM is responding to RISC-V. They're giving the architecture great publicity. Has Softbank forgotten how to run its subsidiaries?
- writepub 8y agoTo be fair, the decision makers, i.e. asic architects,designers from top cop firms, most likely aren't having out at HN, it banking on public opinion here. ARM can bloody well do as it pleases with little impact on business Where RISC-V does have a chance is in getting adopted by a company with a long term Outlook and huge shipments. Ideal customer is Samsung, who use arm in everything from DRAM/NAND to smartphones. If they can prove it commercially on one product line, maybe SD cards, they can shake it to others over there next decade.