Re:Arm wants to charge dramatically more for chip licenses
by panick21_ on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:05AM
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POWER was fake open, while not actually being close to open for a long time. When RISC-V gained adoption they made a panic move and opened it up.
But there is basically no reason to pick POWER over RISC-V at this stage. Not unless you are already invested in the POWER architecture.
RISC-V has far more OpenSource work, far more companies involved, the spec is driven and improved by a lot of people and so on.
The reality is most work on RISC-V doesn't go into super high performance stuff and if its there, then usually along side high performance AI stuff. SiFive, Esperanto,
Tenstorrent and so on.
> I'm not sure how RISC-V is supposed to surpass that from square one.
But there is basically no reason to pick POWER over RISC-V at this stage. Not unless you are already invested in the POWER architecture.
RISC-V has far more OpenSource work, far more companies involved, the spec is driven and improved by a lot of people and so on.
The reality is most work on RISC-V doesn't go into super high performance stuff and if its there, then usually along side high performance AI stuff. SiFive, Esperanto, Tenstorrent and so on.
> I'm not sure how RISC-V is supposed to surpass that from square one.
Buy having 100x more companies working on it.