The RISCV instruction set IS open source. What they’d do to ratfuck it is lock the bootloader or something.
takes this opportunity to develop a high performance RISC V core
They might. This would never be open sourced though. Best case scenario is the boost they would provide to the ISA as a whole by having a company as big as Qualcomm backing it.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Gigasser@lemmy.world 6 days ago
BUT Imagine if it was open sourced. God, Gods, by the nine, would be heaven.
scarilog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If Qualcomm released a FOSS RISC-V IP core that would’ve required spending multiple millions on hardware engineer salaries (no chance in hell), I would:
- Spontaneously ejaculate
- Pull out my FPGA
CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
RISC V is just an open standard set of instructions and their encodings. It is not expected nor required for implementations of RISC V to be open sourced, but if they do make a RISC V chip they don’t have to pay anyone to have that privilege and the chip will be compatible with other RISC V chips because it is an open and standardized instruction set. That’s the point. Qualcomm pays ARM to make their own chip designs that implement the ARM instruction set, they aren’t paying for off the shelf ARM designs like most ARM chip companies do.