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Maybe that will help RISC-V for the same reasons, too!

• Koshkin 6y ago
  But can one compare them? Isn’t it true that RISC-V is merely an instruction set, whereas ARM is much, much more than that - it’s a whole universe of high-quality hardware designs sold (licensed) by a private company right now. And if some other company starts selling/licensing similarly high-quality designs that use the RISC-V instructions, why would that be exciting?
  • schoen 6y ago
    I'm not particularly expert on this, but it seems like RISC-V is ramping up pretty quickly. Presumably an advantage to customers would be that they ideally wouldn't have any vendor lock-in (they could easily switch to a different RISC-V vendor, or even start manufacturing RISC-V chips themselves). They could also customize the ISA with extensions if they had an application for that (although it seems quite conceivable that that's a possibility with ARM too in some way; I don't really know). I realize that just having a lot of RISC-V hardware options available isn't a guarantee that they're particularly good in terms of their price-power consumption-performance tradeoffs, especially in comparison to ARM (the "whole universe of high-quality hardware designs" that you mention). That may well have more of a delay.
• breakfastduck 6y ago
  The more the merrier!