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Can't wait to move on to RISC-V, where vendors can do their experiments in custom extensions without disturbing anyone. Only that which is solid and the board
by snvzz 5y ago
Can't wait to move on to RISC-V, where vendors can do their experiments in custom extensions without disturbing anyone.
Only that which is solid and the board can agree on becomes a ratified specification. The instruction counts are still sane[0], despite it is not missing anything of significance which ARM or x86-64 have anymore, as of the group of extensions that were ratified late 2021.
[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Design
- mrweasel 5y agoWouldn’t those who cannot afford to make their own chips still be beholden to changes and business desicions of they suppliers, regardless of the underlying architecture? What would be the difference between deprecating SGX on Intel and a similar technology on a RISC-V based chip?
- IshKebab 5y agoI don't see why you think RISC-V would make any difference. It's still totally possible to get official or de facto RISC-V extensions that turn out to be a bad design and get abandoned. Just because it is too young for that to have happened yet doesn't mean it can't.