That's an admirable goal, and I applaud the immense effort undertaken to make the OSS dream true.
The ISA may be open but I'm pretty sure the microarchitecture will be totally proprietary. Even with a kick ass microarchitecture they may still struggle if they can't use the latest process nodes to actually manufacture the chips.
Having said that I suspect the main challenge RISCV is going to face is the software ecosystem. That stuff can take a decade to build and requires a degrees of cooperation between all the companies building chips.
I don't think they're doing this for oss reasons
I don't think they're even required to publish the design, they could keep it proprietary
They're not. They're doing it because they fear being SOL if America/the West enforces more sanctions on things like ARM chips/designs or Intel, etc.
And yes, IIRC RISC-V is MIT licensed or something close. Basically companies can take it and implement whatever on top and not have to contribute back.
Alibaba's research arm
server-class RISC-V processor
Is this on purpose?
Is it going to have IME equivalent or will this thing actually be safe?
RiscV has been used for small specific tasks but running a whole OS on it still seems far fetched with so many libraries being unsupported. (yes it exists already but that is also very limited in functionality)
You can run desktop linux on RISC-V. https://youtu.be/1apoFXZ9ad8?si=DMF37jRfUqRHRDm9
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