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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OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 years ago
I would love to see it. But I’m far more excited for RISC-V desktops, truth be told.
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 2 years ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 years 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.
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 2 years 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.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Yeah, ARM originally stood for Advanced RISC Machines.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 years 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.
OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 years 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.
anlumo@feddit.de 2 years 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.
corbin@infosec.pub 2 years 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.