Re:RISC-V is succeeding
by klelatti on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:33AM
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This all rests on the several suppositions including:
- Arm has no IP that can’t be quickly replicated by other firms (for very little money).
- That the quality of designs from other firms will be better than those from Arm (or for the architecture licensees their own).
- The really big Arm licensees would see a commercial advantage to switching.
Intel threw billions at the smartphone market and still lost against Arm. Today there are zero RISC-V smartphone designs. That may change but probably largely because of the Arm China and Nvidia missteps.
I expect (and look forward to) RISC-V establishing a presence in the market but this sort of commentary does the ISA no favours.
Edit: I see elsewhere you think they should abandon the Arm ISA in favour of RISC-V! really not sure about that ..
- Arm has no IP that can’t be quickly replicated by other firms (for very little money).
- That the quality of designs from other firms will be better than those from Arm (or for the architecture licensees their own).
- The really big Arm licensees would see a commercial advantage to switching.
Intel threw billions at the smartphone market and still lost against Arm. Today there are zero RISC-V smartphone designs. That may change but probably largely because of the Arm China and Nvidia missteps.
I expect (and look forward to) RISC-V establishing a presence in the market but this sort of commentary does the ISA no favours.
Edit: I see elsewhere you think they should abandon the Arm ISA in favour of RISC-V! really not sure about that ..