• rtxn@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Why is RISC-V significant? I’m completely out of the loop and have only heard of it in passing.

    • andruid@lemmy.ml
      8·
      2 years ago

      Open standard CPU instruction set. Meaning people can design new chips for it without needing to enter an expensive license agreement.

      • Blackmist@feddit.uk
        2·
        2 years ago

        I would have thought the license agreement would be one of the least expensive parts of making modern high-performance chips.

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
          3·
          2 years ago

          Quite the opposite. Well, sort of.

          It’s easy to get a licence, you just need money. Lots of money.

          That’s if you can get a licence. Intel only licensed to AMD because the USA military requires two vendors.

          ARM charges an, err, arm and a leg.

    • wiki_me@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s an open standard that enables open source implementation (and several industry supported options exist), most notably IMO xiangshan and vroom