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RISC-V’s success won’t benefit the end user, only spare designers a licensing fee they can well afford. After recompiling everyone’s software and dividing a hug
by threshold 5y ago
RISC-V’s success won’t benefit the end user, only spare designers a licensing fee they can well afford. After recompiling everyone’s software and dividing a huge unified ecosystem the end result will be some political victory with no material value.
- mydeskistoosm 5y agoIsn't there some chance someone will manufacture laptops that people can have 100% confidence don't contain hardware-level backdoors?
- threshold 5y ago100% confidence no way, not yet, but arguably it’s a small step in that direction. Building hardware with no backdoors is impossible unless you’re talking 70’s era technology. There’s a long list of reasons why