Comment by LeFantome
22 days ago
Completely wrong.
Yes, you can create your own ISA. But to run what software?
If I create my own RISC-V implementation, I can install Ubuntu on it. Maybe even Steam.
See the difference?
And, the market has responded with a tidal wave of CPU contenders. Like in the rest of the world, not all of them target the highest end portion of the market. But some are choosing to play there. Have you checked-out Ascalon?
And why did Qualcomm pay all that money for Ventana recently? You do not expect them to release high-end RISC-V chips? I mean, they already ship many low-end ones.
> And why did Qualcomm pay all that money for Ventana recently? You do not expect them to release high-end RISC-V chips? I mean, they already ship many low-end ones.
Ventana is an extremely bad example to be used here. It is acquisition price is undisclosed, it could be just some $ for acquiring the team behind it. Secondly, Qualcomm's nuvia acquisition was pretty huge, there is no reason whatsoever to believe the Ventana acquisition is remotely comparable, that proves no one uses RISC-V anyway.
> no uses RISC-V anyway
Here is an article from a company called Qualcomm from two years ago saying that they had, at that time, already shipped 650 million RISC-V cores.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2023/09/what-is-risc-v-and...
I notice that the three benefits they flag for RISC-V are: flexibility, control, and visibility.
I wonder how they felt about "control" after ARM tried to stop them from commercializing the value of their Nuvia acquisition? I wonder if it had anything to do with their next big acquisition being RISC-V based instead?
I also wonder, why on their Oryon page does Qualcomm never meanion ARM. Not even once. Even to the question, is Oryon x86, they do not answer that it is ARM. Why not?
https://www.qualcomm.com/processors/oryon
Why don't you read what was written instead of being the unthinking RISC-V fanboi in the room. My only point was that the RISC-V license is probably not the biggest factor in its success, since there have been many, many open source ISAs that weren't successful.