As others have stated: riscv.org/about/
Now, there would still be a metric fuck ton of money involved. Chip fabs aren’t cheap, engineers aren’t cheap and project management isn’t cheap.
The open architecture means there is already a framework and R&D costs will also be limited. And yeah, no licensing fees like we already covered.
Without diving deep into RISC V, just because there is an open architecture doesn’t mean that there are machines capable of manufacturing whatever specs are require. Licensing fees for machining could be pure insanity.
Still, a few million (or billion?) is normal when it comes to making this stuff.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s an extremely shitty metaphor. But the ISA is the only open part. There already are and will be designs that will be licensed.
The beauty is, let them build highly performant risc-v cores to license. Everyone will win. As long as they don’t shove poison pill proprietary bits in it. If they do then no one should license or design around them. Because it will just create bugs and incompatibility. But if they want to be the go to designer based on the quality of their designs and not proprietary lock in. Let’s go.