How to spot a dumb crossboarding redditor.
People are always searching for the next performance improvement...
David Phillips
Julian Martin
Can't wait to listen to the new Tool album and play Half-Life 3 on muh shiny new RISC-V computer. Oh wait
Wyatt Lopez
binary
lol at proprietary game lusers.
Elijah Hall
there's already a (albeit expensive) SBC from SiFive, and LowRISC should be releasing theirs sometime this year.
But I guess if you're THAT fucking impatient, It looks like ARM is going to be entering new markets outside of its usual SBCs and smartphones in the near future. We're already seeing 48-core ARM server chips from Cavium and Qualcomm, with the Caviums already being sold by various companies (two Linux-friendly ones being PogoLinux and System76).
And the existence of higher-end ARM chromebooks like Samsung CB+ with 6 cores 2.0GHz shows that ARM laptops could be feasible.
Ethan Hughes
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Brody Torres
It's kind of hilarious when you consider that (as a result of sabotaging DEC) Intel owned the leading ARM technology in StrongARM during the rise of the smartphone, until they sold it off. They could've been playing both sides of the market by now.
Carson Perry
I hate this mentality, especially when it shows up in security and privacy topics, but here as well.
Yes. RISC-V is under a permissive license. Yes there are issues with that. Yes GPLv3 would have been preferred. No that doesn't mean it's not a good thing, because it's still a step above the other architectures. x86 is a fucking duopoly, ARM requires special licensing agreements to be able to make chips for it, OpenPOWER, at least from the wikipedia article on it, seems to be only "Open" to IBM's business partners, and other open ISAs seem to be much older or inferior to RISC-V. pic related.
Colton Allen
also, take note of that address part. RISC-V is future-proof as fuck
Alexander Nelson
No that has to do with precalculations for MUHpotential speed increase (because of repetitive tasks; now it's useless) not with new calculation.
We should switch architectures and emulate old stuff as soon as possible tbh.
I'd like seeing us with something for maximum throughput like cell.
Jackson Gonzalez
64-bit ougtta be enuff for anybody for, you know, like, forever.