What did they use before?
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They didn't say, so your guess is as good as mine. I would expect a mix of different ISAs.
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What core(s) were they using previously? Before RISC-V, I probably would have chosen a 32-bit MIPS-compatible core, to avoid paying the ARM tax.
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Krste Asanović and David A. Patterson answered this and other question in their 2014 "Instruction Sets Should Be Free: The Case For RISC-V" white paper. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2014-146.pdf …
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