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OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• corbin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  RISC-V is also really exciting, yeah. I’m curious if it will have to go through the same slow progression in form factors that we saw with ARM (first embedded, then phones, then tablets, etc.) or if we’ll get high-performance RISC hardware more quickly.

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• CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hasn’t RISC been around since at least the 90s? How much more time do they really need if it’s ever going to be ready for desktops?

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    RISC-V dates from 2011. RISC processors have been around since the 1980s, and ARM processors (in all our mobile devices) are RISC processors.

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    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, thanks. Obviously I didn’t keep up with developments as well as I thought. I knew that Apple Silicon is Arm-based, but I didn’t realize that Arm is RISC.

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, ARM originally stood for Advanced RISC Machines.

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• sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s years away though right? Even if we get some this year, they’ll be very immature. When you look at Arm based stuff, especially the Pi 5 and similar, it goes without saying that their time is now.

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  • OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, you’re not wrong. I’m not saying it’s soon, there’s clearly a lot of work to be done in the space still, I’m just excited for unencumbered processor designs.

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• anlumo@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  RISC-V is exciting for chip manufacturers, not sure why end users should be. I personally don’t care whether the CPU in my system required the producer to pay a license fee.

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