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riscv is primarily used in microcontroller or peripheral cores on an soc. It'll be a while yet until it is competitive on application cores that applications pe
by surajrmal 6mo ago
riscv is primarily used in microcontroller or peripheral cores on an soc. It'll be a while yet until it is competitive on application cores that applications people run on such that we adopt it in mass. Arm and x86 are also not legacy or going away. The choice to focus on them is rational at this time.
- snvzz 6mo agoI hear you, I disagree. We do not need to argue over this, but rather, we can see what happens over the next couple years.
- surajrmal 5mo agoWhat is your criteria to measure this by and over what time scale? In 5 years, I have doubts we will see even 5% penetration of riscv on platforms which end user software runs (outside of China). I wish I could be more optimistic, but after paying attention to the standards process due many years and seeing the landscape evolve, I've become pesemistic on the matter. Even after hardware is competitive, software support will continue to lag. This culminates in security, performance and power challenges that would regress user experience compared to arm and limit adoption by device makers.