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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/340026
This is great for moving RISC-V to mainstream. Pine64 makes great hardware.
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Nice! Do you have the link?
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This is really really cool. I want to get my hands on some capable riscV board.
What is the fuss about RISC-V? Why could I want a RISC-V board over an ARM board.
Because RISC V is ope hardware.
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I agree that it’s not completely open, but having an open ISA is alteady a huge step forward.
Yes, the ISA is open as well the reference base design. You can have a closed source implementation of the open ISA.
But with a open ISA you are free from the x86 situation where only three enterprises can make chips and have some real competition. We have some of this with ARM, but as it’s a closed ISA and controlled by one enterprise, it’s not future proof.
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China is leading RISC-V development, and the major Chinese designs are actually open source! The Xiangshan and Alibaba designed cores, as two examples.
ARM is owned by a company. RISC-V instruction set is open.
The ARM company is also owned by Softbank which launders blood money from Saudi royalty/oligarchs: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/i-wouldnt-take-that-money-saudi-arabias-dirty-investments-could-be-trouble-for-softbank
Other than being open source which others have already mentioned, the RISC-V instruction set is very optimized, having been developed with the full hindsight of every ISA that came before it as well as being designed for the capabilities of modern silicon, RISC-V cores have the potential to be a lot more efficient than any of the existing dominant ISAs.
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Having an open ISA like RISC-V increases competition in the market. Better for us consumers.
