Re:Power9 to the People
by snvzz on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:19AM
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ARM is the past, as pretty much every prominent chipmaker currently using ARM is in the RISC-V consortium today, and will be selling chips based on RISC-V tomorrow.
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For the past year and a half, there has been no hardware for RISC-V. Where can one buy a cheap RISC-V desktop or a 19” rack mountable 1U server?
Furthermore, RISC V is one of the most awful designs I have ever seen in a processor internally. The assembler mnemonics are idiotic (compare and contrast with MC68000), the assembler is backwards (intel syntax of dst, src instead of src, dst)... it’s just an awful, non-orthognal, non-intuitive design. It’s an imaginary processor for imaginary hardware.