Why Occident doesn’t do the same ?? RISC-V is a libre hardware movement created and moved by many Occident Universities and yet we have few RISC-V in the market.
Are we too much stagnated with corporation products or what?
Because as a business, it doesn’t make sense in occident. They will be much worse in price to performance, and probably forget to run windows or other software.
From a business sense, it mostly makes sense of you think being dependent on “traditional” is a risk in a way or another.
There is often a very limited market for underperforming hardware, which is how RISC-V chips will be starting out. There is a large amount of accumulated knowledge about, and workflow to accommodate, already established ISAs.
Due to most companies being publicly traded, taking risks is much less common, since a drop in profits could see a massive portion of the company’s funds get pulled, or more likely the CEO being yanked by the board. So they play it safe and choose already established architectures.
LOONGSON
Are ya winning, LOONGSON?
Long long man has a son??
Performing sufficiently for cheap production cost, they’d be a low RISC high reward investment.
Lol yes.
low RISC high reward
I hate you
That’s ok. So do I.
There’s this back story about the “LoongArch instruction system, a RISC ISA that blends ideas from MIPS and RISC-V”. The article says it is MIPS-compatible and even runs the same Linux code [Loongson’s] old MIPS-based CPUs did. Why not just use RISC-V? MIPS is licensed from the USA. I guess they have a lot of legacy people at Loongson.
More competition in the chip space is always good
No gonna lie, this is really cool. While the efficiency isn’t great, for a first attempt these are surprisingly decent specs for what is effectively a mobile cpu. Their server level ones also are pretty decent, and while they aren’t really a match for the newest zen architecture, they are also a first attempt on an architecture that isn’t x86 or arm (some mix of risc v and mips).
damn that’s a rare China W
