June Update: Who likes RISC-V? | PINE64
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This month we reveal that we are working on a powerful and affordable RISC-V single board computer, discuss huge PineNote’s software improvements and provide updates on PinePhone…
  • Sr Estegosaurio
    4·
    2 years ago

    This is really really cool. I want to get my hands on some capable riscV board.

  • mogoh
    4·
    2 years ago

    What is the fuss about RISC-V? Why could I want a RISC-V board over an ARM board.

        • inciciOP
          3·
          2 years ago

          I agree that it’s not completely open, but having an open ISA is alteady a huge step forward.

          • Subversivo
            2·
            2 years ago

            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.

        • AgreeableLandscape
          2·
          2 years ago

          China is leading RISC-V development, and the major Chinese designs are actually open source! The Xiangshan and Alibaba designed cores, as two examples.

    • inciciOP
      9·
      2 years ago

      ARM is owned by a company. RISC-V instruction set is open.

    • AgreeableLandscape
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • inciciOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Having an open ISA like RISC-V increases competition in the market. Better for us consumers.