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In everyday speech, it generally means power/strength.
by z3phyr 8y ago
In everyday speech, it generally means power/strength.
- nickik 8y agoThey called it POWER because initially they wanted to us the POWER ISA rather then RISC-V. Luckily they switched over.
- zokier 8y agoWhy luckily? Whats wrong with POWER?
- Keyframe 8y agoNot (as) open!
- nickik 8y agoBecause RISC-V is an open ISA. POWER would have been made in India in terms of 'you patents are not valid here' and not have been usable outside of India. RISC-V also is becoming the standard for research and the open-hardware community. Now the Indians can share and collaborate with the open-hardware community.
- tfha 8y agoIsn't it the case that RISC-V is only open for non-commercial use, and that for commercial products it still has licensing requirements attached to it?
- monocasa 8y agoNo. I'm sure there'll be some cores with that license (if there aren't already), but the ISA itself is BSD licensed.
- nickik 8y agoRISC-V was made by people at Berkeley and then was released threw a non-profit foundation. It is completely free and open to use. There might be specific implementation that could be licensed as you describe but I am not aware of any at the moment.