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Watch what happens when the bottom finally drops out of Intel and the cloud retreats behind their own custom ARM or RISC-V server optimized SoCs. Open hardware

Watch what happens when the bottom finally drops out of Intel and the cloud retreats behind their own custom ARM or RISC-V server optimized SoCs. Open hardware sources will dry-up. There are very few OSS hardware vendors that are in a position to pick up supporting the whole ecosystem enchilada. System76 is the only one that comes to mind. They seem to understand to some degree where the puck is heading. While 'general computing' can't be taken away, what an individual or small company can support won't be able to compete with the locked down systems, especially if the upstream efforts are spread across multiple open source fronts.

snvzz 3y ago
>While 'general computing' can't be taken away, what an individual or small company can support won't be able to compete with the locked down systems, especially if the upstream efforts are spread across multiple open source fronts. This is a very pessimistic view. IBM never designed the PC to be future proof. It just happened to pick up. RISC-V standardization extends to the boot process and the platform, facilitating a standard PC that's cleaner, simpler and better than the current incidental IBM PC derived platform, which has accumulated much baggage since 1981. The platform standard being open and simple minimizes the effort the software side (esp. the OS) needs to spend on supporting the hardware.