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floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 months agoRISC-V dates from 2011. RISC processors have been around since the 1980s, and ARM processors (in all our mobile devices) are RISC processors.
Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI
floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 months agoRISC-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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Yeah, ARM originally stood for Advanced RISC Machines.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 11 months ago
There’s an interesting article about the thoughts of one of the Raspberry Pi founders on RISC-V here jeffgeerling.com/…/what-eben-upton-said-about-ris…
I’m guessing we won’t see a RISC-V version any time soon.