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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.

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cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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.

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