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Only if you are a hardware manufacturer hoping for a free ride. Risk-V openness does nothing for the users, its all about not paying license fees for IP cores.
by rasz 3y ago
Only if you are a hardware manufacturer hoping for a free ride. Risk-V openness does nothing for the users, its all about not paying license fees for IP cores. Hardware vendors using rick-v cores are free to and do indeed put their own proprietary crap inside.
- snvzz 3y ago>Risk-V, rick-v RISC-V[0]. 0. https://riscv.org/about/risc-v-branding-guidelines/ https://riscv.org/about/risc-v-branding-guidelines/
- rbanffy 3y ago> Risk-V openness does nothing for the users Not really. It allows for the commoditization of RISC-V processors, a scenario where companies would compete in price/performance, ultimately lowering their prices the same way the PC standard built around the x86 forced system integrators to compete in price.
- qwytw 3y ago> the PC standard built around the x86 forced system integrators to compete in price Not necessarily a good thing if none of the manufacturers can afford to innovate or take any risk due to too low margins. Without Apple we'd probably still have horrible tiny touchpads and low-res 16:9 screens (not that Apple's influence on the PC market has been entirely positive..).