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>Other open ISAs precede it Do you have any in mind? From what I can tell even POWER is not as open as RISC-V. They only show schematics to their partners, not
by CameronNemo 6y ago
>Other open ISAs precede it
Do you have any in mind? From what I can tell even POWER is not as open as RISC-V. They only show schematics to their partners, not the public at large.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation#Openness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation#Openness
- floatboth 6y agoThis is about the ISA, and POWER ISA has indeed been made royalty-free recently. Schematics are about a particular microarchitecture, particular hardware implementation.
- nsajko 6y agoOpenRISC, SPARC. POWER opened up only after RISC-V. Relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instruction_set_architectures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instruction_set_...