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One is required for the other, though - you're not going to get any good open hardware for a closed ISA, and RISC-V and OpenPOWER seem to be the two shots we've
by miloignis 5y ago
One is required for the other, though - you're not going to get any good open hardware for a closed ISA, and RISC-V and OpenPOWER seem to be the two shots we've got.
We practically need an open ISA to succeed as a prerequisite for open hardware to do the same.
- klelatti 5y agoIf by open hardware you mean open source chip then yes but I’m not sure that 1. that’s a big advantage for users or 2. going to happen at the leading edge of CPU design where most of us actually do our computing. It takes real money to design and test a high performance CPU and (even for RISC-V) an open source ISA does not mean an open source chip.