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Loongson is MIPS not RISC-V. The issue is whether China will get behind the RISC-V stuff and contribute to a semi-unified ecosystem or whether the individual c
by bsder 3y ago
Loongson is MIPS not RISC-V.
The issue is whether China will get behind the RISC-V stuff and contribute to a semi-unified ecosystem or whether the individual companies will fuck it up by balkanizing everything in an attempt to one-up their competitors. I'm not optimistic.
The West mostly doesn't really care about RISC-V. ARM licensing costs don't seem to be completely out of line unless you are talking super-cheap devices--which mostly come from China.
(A good counterexample is Nordic Semiconductor. They are having to compete against cheap Chinese BLE alternatives so they needed to start looking at RISC-V).
- suprjami 3y agoThis poster knows what's up. I'd put money on a future which looks exactly like this.
- creer 3y agoI was answering the parent remark which was about RISC-V. And my point is that if RISC-V achieves a significant amount of open designs and tooling then anyone who joins is roughly speaking guaranteed parity (in design - something like ISA and microarchitecture, not in foundry). Which is much better than the current situation.