I think they mean that ARM became dominant by widely licencing its RISC architecture to pretty much anyone. This startup wants to make RISC V designs and licence them to various chip manufacturers - so they won’t be in the business of making chips themselves, just the design.
But as long as they are RISC V chips, then they would run the same software as any other RISC V chips.
But as long as they are RISC V chips, then they would run the same software as any other RISC V chips.
Not necessarily, RISC-V is permissibly licensed, so they could add proprietary extensions, that would make the binaries or even compilers only work with their implementation of the RISC-V ISA.
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I think they mean that ARM became dominant by widely licencing its RISC architecture to pretty much anyone. This startup wants to make RISC V designs and licence them to various chip manufacturers - so they won’t be in the business of making chips themselves, just the design.
But as long as they are RISC V chips, then they would run the same software as any other RISC V chips.
cmhe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not necessarily, RISC-V is permissibly licensed, so they could add proprietary extensions, that would make the binaries or even compilers only work with their implementation of the RISC-V ISA.