i guess two major microarchitectural optimization patent holders on core risc-v technology wasn't enough
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(if you were wondering: sifive and imagination, and no, you don't get those patents for free because they are out of the scope of the risc-v ISA patent grant)
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i for one, am just waiting for the new risc-v intel ME that is surely going to come out as a result of this
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TBH I see the phrase "RISC-V" go by and I wonder what problem it solves, given that every device I own contains either an arm64 or amd64 CPU, including my digital synthesizers. And all my GPUs are NVIDIA except my Android phone.
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NVIDIA has shipped billions of RISC-V cores in their GPUs. You probably own other hardware with RISC-V cores. It avoids paying licensing fees and can be extended into a custom ISA rather than being beholden to what ARM feels like permitting you to do, potentially for more money.
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Pixel 6 uses RISC-V for the secure element instead of licensing a secure element design from ARM and customizing it.
ARMv9 is a nicer ISA than RISC-V but it's not something you can use for free and how you want. RISC-V has some odd design decisions and annoyances but it's free.
Why pay ARM licensing fees for 30 different cores when you can stick to paying for the 6 main CPU cores in the SoC? Entirely possible that RISC-V is DOA for broad adoption as the main CPU cores in personal computing devices but it's very useful for small and special purpose use.
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but that's the problem, risc-v is now going to be stuck to small cores that go slow, because of the growing microarch patent issue
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