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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are there even any advantages to it over ARM?

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

At a technical level it's still young and most likely not as powerful as other similar platforms, but on a legal level the instruction set is an open standard and royaltee-free, so it can't be embargoed through licensing like ARM or other instruction sets.

I'm happy to see more openness in hardware.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait so ARM isn't open? Ok now it makes sense

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No it's not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I still don't understand. Is it like RHEL (they give you all the source code) or more like Windows?

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's neither. It's a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

So it's more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Too technical; didn't understand. I prefer RISC-V at this point

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How can you have a preference if you don't understand?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You didn't say it's fully open-source so RISC-V is better no matter how "open" ARM is

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 3 months ago

Closed source but if you pay enough you can get the source