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Comment by simonask

7 hours ago

It will be literal decades before RISC-V becomes mainstream. Not because it’s not a perfectly fine ISA, but because business incentive structures aren’t nowhere near supporting it.

Literal man-millennia have been poured into writing software for both x86 and ARM, and nobody seems close to designing a competitive RISC-V chip.

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