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Because companies will want to use their own custom chips as a competitive edge. If google started making streamlined RISC-V CPUs, they could drown out a lot of
by tcmart14 4y ago
Because companies will want to use their own custom chips as a competitive edge. If google started making streamlined RISC-V CPUs, they could drown out a lot of RISC-V competition because Google has the capital to acquire some of the best to design their chips. Why give away what they could turn into a competitive edge away for free? As a lover of open source, this sucks and I wish it were different, but it is the reality of business. Especially since making hardware is so much more expensive.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoNowadays, I doubt that there is a huge advantage to having slightly more performant CPUs - companies typically would benefit more by incorporating custom requirements into the chip so that they can reduce chip count and size etc. Arguably Google has the resources to make their own performant CPU (with blackjack and hookers) without needing to use RISC-V anyway.