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I like your use of time-scales to try to explain why we are where we are. I hope very much you're right that what we see now is isn't really reflective. That a
by rektide 4y ago
I like your use of time-scales to try to explain why we are where we are. I hope very much you're right that what we see now is isn't really reflective. That a ton of really big improvements to RISC-V cores are being lined up, will show up.
I'm not going to judge too quickly. But man, waiting till 2026 feels hard. Whether we have any intermittent experience of RISC-V closing the gap in that time is still in doubt to me. And I keep worrying that we'll forever see a huge split: a bunch of super cheap super low-end RISC-V application-processors that are just not good, and a bunch of many-thousand-dollar fancy units, that may or may not get actually good benchmarks/availability. With ARM potentially getting absurd & stupid, the good value for a sub $100 or sub $300 SBC seems like the real competition, and I just have such concern RISC-V is going to bifuracte between extremely up-market & extremely cheap crap.