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> Many people are in for a rude awakening when they realize that a free ISA saves them like 1% or less of system cost. Actually nobody will have a rude awakeni
by nickik 8y ago
> Many people are in for a rude awakening when they realize that a free ISA saves them like 1% or less of system cost.
Actually nobody will have a rude awakening from that as everybody in RISC-V already knows this. That ISA don't matter much for price or performance was mentioned in pretty much every single presentation on RISC-V.
Only by open source fans who don't know much about hardware had such unrealistic expectations.
RISC-V allows for a future of open and costume hardware to be used. There will never be an open hardware RISC-V RPi style board unless you have an open ISA you can build around and use the software base.
Now we have real shot at something like that coming about.