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Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

RISC-V is the only shot we have at usable open source hardware. I really, really hope it takes off.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Whilst some open source implementations exist, RISC-V is not open source. It's an open standard. i.e. there's no license fee to implement it.

[–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know that I thought all RISC-V was open source :( I'm not as familiar with it as I'd like to be. I might just have to dive into it more and change that soon

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I didn’t know that I thought all RISC-V was open source :(

If RISC-V was under some copyleft license where chip designs would have to be made open source, nobody from the chip industry would support RISC-V. They want "kinda like ARM but without licensing fees".