Comment by Chyzwar
5 hours ago
It is Chinese companies looking for ARM alternative that push this otherwise mediocre ISA.
It is possible that ARM based CPUs will start eating x86 market slowly. See snapdragon X2 and upcoming Nvidia CPU. Maybe in 10 years new computers will be ARM based and a lot of IoT will run on risc-5.
"It is Chinese companies looking for ARM alternative"
The V in RISC-V represents iteration of the ISA, over the last 46 years, most of which occurred in the US, mainly at Berkeley.
They push it to save a couple nickels per core on the ARM licenses, not out of nationalistic fervor.
And it is the Chinese doing it because virtually 100% of all chips are made in China and Taiwan.
Your comment is appealing to fallacies such as it being old so it's good or that it was made by a prestigious university. It's not like those early iterations were commercially produced and they learned off of real world usage. For the people who criticize the ISA, saying that it is old will not change their mind.
Why "mediocre"? I've written production assembly language for a half-dozen different processor architectures and RISC-V is my favorite by far.
You should write an article on that explaining why you like it to the common man
Really? Didn't China pirate the entire ARM China company and start spamming cores like Star1