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Because 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
by nickik 8y ago
Because 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.