Comment on Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86
bitfucker@programming.dev 2 months agoI’m being pedantic here but RISC-V is not a hardware architecture as in something that you can send to a manufacturer and get it made. It is an ISA. How you implement those ISA is up to you. Yes there are open implementations but I think it is important to distinguish it.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
isnt ARM the same?
bitfucker@programming.dev 2 months ago
So does x86. The difference is license. Just like how Intel and AMD have a VERY different design (implementation) as of now, so does RISC-V. Any vendor can implement it however they want, but they won’t have to pay anyone for using that specific ISA