RISC-V

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RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is a license-free, modular, extensible instruction set architecture (ISA).

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Arm stock declines massively as Qualcomm acquires RISC-V designer Ventana (www.techradar.com)

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[–] xtools@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

as much as i love seeing a company embracing risc-v... why did it have to be qualcomm? they'll just turn it into their own proprietary crap just so they can save money on the arm licenses

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can they? I thought it was an open ISA without a pushover license like MIT.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

i was thinking of it more in the way of how ARM came to be. they took RISC, built upon and extended it, with the end result being proprietary processors which weren't RISC anymore.

i strongly doubt that anything qualcomm will create would contribute to the risc-v ecosystem at a whole. on the other hand, maybe it's an important step for it's mass adoption. time will tell