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Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm being pedantic here but RISC-V is not a hardware architecture as in something that you can send to a manufacturer and get it made. It is an ISA. How you implement those ISA is up to you. Yes there are open implementations but I think it is important to distinguish it.

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

isnt ARM the same?

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So does x86. The difference is license. Just like how Intel and AMD have a VERY different design (implementation) as of now, so does RISC-V. Any vendor can implement it however they want, but they won't have to pay anyone for using RISC-V ISA