• sibachian
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    4 years ago

    In a perfect world, where both Apple and Microsoft abandons x86 for ARM as Moore’s Law comes to an end. Linux and open source takes the spear of the future with RISC-V.

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      Honestly, if RISC-V gets a fraction of Raspberry PI’s popularity I will be one happy nerd. Want this in my home as a full OSS server.

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      4 years ago

      now we just have to wait until nvidia fucks up arm for everyone else with their traditional predatory tactics 🤗

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      4 years ago

      Apple has already put ARM on their phones and I believe their latest laptops have the M1 chips that are ARM. Also I don’t think Moore’s Law has to end. Why do you include that detail?

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        Moore’s law has fundamental limits in that transistors can only get so small before the electrons begin to quantum tunnel through them. After which, you can only increase the number of transistors by increasing the size of the chip. I think some roadmaps predict that circuits will become more and more specialized so that the performance increases without having to increase the size.

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        point is, both Apple and Microsoft is moving away from x86 in favor of ARM. my wish (in a perfect world) would be that Linux is able to push RISC-V ahead of the competition for all things IT.