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> There is plenty of evidence that anyone 'wanting to design their own stuff' are targeting RISC-V. At the moment there isn’t though. Really there is basically
by edgyquant 3y ago
> There is plenty of evidence that anyone 'wanting to design their own stuff' are targeting RISC-V.
At the moment there isn’t though. Really there is basically none. The largest ecosystems making their own chips are using ARM right now, not RISCV.
- brucehoult 3y agoThe largest ecosystems that are deployed as production hardware right now, sure. That's because designing a high performance core takes several years, and then getting it into a chip, tested, into mass production, and in to computers in stores or data centres takes another three or four years. RISC-V has only existed as a frozen (ratified) base ISA for four years and a couple of months, and a lot of extra stuff that you want in applications processors for phones or PCs was ratified in November 2021, less than two years ago. You're not going to see a lot of products with the late 2021 stuff until 2025 or 2026. In terms of people starting projects now, or recently, that is indeed mostly RISC-V.