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Yes, if it eats them from the low end up, it can potentially do what Intel did to minicomputers and what ARM is trying to do to Intel. There is a low barrier t
by throwawaylinux 5y ago
Yes, if it eats them from the low end up, it can potentially do what Intel did to minicomputers and what ARM is trying to do to Intel.
There is a low barrier to hardware design for microcontrollers, and there is almost no innovation in the ISA these days it is all in the digital logic and software around it, so charging for that is approaching rent-seeking. Not saying the ARM64 ISA is not nice and clean, but it's a warmed over RISC. There's nothing revolutionary about it and no new ideas. It just shouldn't be something that locks you in to a vendor, or requires you to pay a tax on every device. It's an "API", it should be open.