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Re:ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin comp... by phkahler on Sunday November 22, 2020 @02:32PM (#25180289)
That is going to put a dent in ARMs revenue. Even if that particular chip isn't a big seller, it means ST now has a drop-in replacement for ARM in their other SoCs. Soon people will realize that ISA is often irrelevant, but the peripherals, libraries, and tools are.
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Re:ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin comp... by ckocagil on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:12PM (#25180638)
That's not ST, it's by the Chinese company GigaDevice that makes (decent) clones of the STM32 series. Your point still stands though.
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Re:ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin comp... by ducktective on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:04PM (#25180569)
I'm not so sure. About ISA there is this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24958423
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Re:ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin comp... by brucehoult on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:16PM (#25204574)
That's one opinion. Another ARM engineer who contributed one heck of a lot more to ARM's success (designed ARM7TDMI, Thumb, Thumb2) says RISC-V is great. See at 51 minutes in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sh097Dk5k
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Re:ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin comp... by snvzz on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:39PM (#25183099)
Any ISA can be dissected, but ultimately RISC-V's got the mindshare and the license.
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Re:ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin comp... by GoblinSlayer on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:59AM (#25184517)
There's no solution, only tradeoffs.
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