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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by NovaDudely on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:43PM (#37027153)
OpenSPARC/POWER is the reason why I am not too excited about RiscV. We have had open GPL designs for close to 20 years and they just sort of went nowhere. RiscV seems to be something neat for those that design processors or work with them low level but for the general person I do not think it will result in anything amazingly different.
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Re:Qualcomm – one of Arm’s biggest customers – starts a RISC... by panick21_ on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:31AM (#37031858)
SPARC was only open for 32 bit and POWER was not actually open until many years after RISC-V.

> RiscV seems to be something neat for those that design processors or work with them low level but for the general person I do not think it will result in anything amazingly different.

For the general person of course nothing technical matters. But for the industry it matters a whole lot.

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