Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year

Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by sliverstorm on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:10PM (#15803596)

RISC-V is certainly more unencumbered, but there's always the ARM architecture license too. Pricey, but you can modify and build on a relatively more mature ISA

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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by asb on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:41PM (#15803734)

An architectural license doesn't give you free reign to extend the ISA, just to create your own implementation of the standard ISA.

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