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One decade ago was 2012. Chromebooks on ARM have already been out for a year. Windows RT for ARM was coming out later in the year. Smart phones are clearly al
by mcpherrinm 5y ago
One decade ago was 2012.
Chromebooks on ARM have already been out for a year. Windows RT for ARM was coming out later in the year. Smart phones are clearly all going ARM. The 64 bit ARM spec was out and people were excited about it.
I think it was a lot clearer that ARM was going to succeed x86, as compared to looking forwards now as to where RISCV will beat ARM.
I do suspect the microcontroller ecosystem will have lots of RISC-V. But it seems a lot less clear that it will succeed ARM in the mobile/laptop/desktop/server markets. I personally do not think that’ll likely happen any time soon.
- pclmulqdq 5y agoThe microcontroller space is where the cost of the ISA really matters, too. Most of the other IP in a microcontroller is cheap. If you compare that to a mobile SoC, the CPU core often isn't even the most expensive block.