Comment by bigyabai
1 day ago
ARM was also rooted in an academic exercise. A lot of the drawbacks for modern ARM PC platforms stem from the aversion to actually advanced features like SVE/SVE2 and UEFI.
It's sad, but it was also wildly successful. RISC-V has already replaced ARM in highly-custom embedded spaces like Nvidia's GPU controllers, and it likely won't stop unless ARM finally changes their tune vis-a-vis licensing.
> ARM was also rooted in an academic exercise.
Where do people get ideas like this from? Just nonsense.
ARM, the ISA, is wholly rooted in academic exercises like Berkeley RISC.
What do you think happened? RISC-I and RISC-II never existed, ARM means "Automated Reasoning Mechanism" and the ISA was never RISC whatsoever?
Talk about nonsense, damn...