RISC-V is succeeding

Re:RISC-V is succeeding by the_duke on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:21PM (#30517829)

ARM has extensive IP and know how. They could build up and sell high performance RISC-V IP/cores now and prevent RISC-V focused companies like SiFive from gaining a foothold by denying them revenue and investment.

Alas, that would probably have worked better 2+ years ago, there is a lot of movement now.

It seems like Intel has realized this. They tried to buy Sifive, but have now themselves joined as a major RiscV International sponsor and are investing heavily in the ecosystem.

Of course there is a downside there too, because it accelerates a software and hardware ecosystem transition to a different architecture that can enable other players. We'll see how it plays out

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by YorkshireSeason on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:54PM (#30518355)

> Intel has realized this

One of the reasons Intel is spending money on RISC-V could be that they want to undercut Arm, as the latter are now beginning to be competitive in Intel's X86 world. RISC-V is going to succeed at all as an ISA, it is going to hurt Arm before Intel.

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by jerrysievert on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:54PM (#30521709)

intel bought into arm as well, then sold it off like many other things in the past. it will be interesting to see if intel is forward-thinking this time, or just chasing profit ... again.

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