I just think it's neat to have a new architecture, and the fact that it would compete with ARM is also exciting. However, you are right that there are potential pitfalls. I am waiting to see how this goes, but I'm ready to embrace an open arch over more closed alternatives, even if it's not perfect.
pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I'm curious to see if the Mill architecture will take off any time soon. Unfortunately, it's not an open platform, but it would represent some interesting innovations in processor design. They've apparently been making steady progress, but publicly facing information about progress is limited.
marmulak@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
First time I've even heard of this
pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
It's been in progress for a while, but it's not gotten to market yet. The team's pretty small and there is a lot of work to do as with any new architecture. It does provide some interesting potential to vastly reduce the power usage compared to out of order architectures. It also provides various other interesting innovations like an alternative to registers, L1-only memory, a single address space, and an intermediate instruction set that gets specialized to the individual processor.