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There are big players capable of opening it up like Philips, Sony, IBM, Microsoft, and several more. Or even if, in a weird twist of fate, China embraces an op
by alecco 6y ago
There are big players capable of opening it up like Philips, Sony, IBM, Microsoft, and several more.
Or even if, in a weird twist of fate, China embraces an open hardware alliance.
But it's looking very, very bad as things are right now.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoChina is already a big player in the RISC-V space and will likely dominate there. Ironically, this is at least partially due to the policies of the previous US Administration which is driving China to adopt the open RISC-V ISA so that they're not frozen out of US technology. But still, these are large players with a lot of money (gov funding in China's case). > There are big players capable of opening it up like Philips, Sony, IBM, Microsoft You forget Apple which with the M1 has proven that they can even outdo Intel. But again, Apple has a lot of $Billions to throw around. Microsoft seems to possibly also be making some processor moves, but we'll see how that works out (and again, $Billions to throw around)
- alecco 6y agoApple is definitevely part of the FAANG pseudo-oligopoly. And they are even less open than Google. They all buy up any competition who might disrupt the market. It's very sad. Even OpenAI turned out to be propietary and practically bought out by Microsoft. And that's mostly software.