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 No.2170

The future of computing should be F/OSS!
The RISC-V instruction set architecture is just that, allowing anyone to make changes, design their own, and redistribute their creations. Currently the push for RISC-V is appearing in embedded computing and IoT devices, but as more people begin to adopt the technology over it's sets like ARM could bring RISC-V phones, laptops, etc.

There are a lot more organizations that are pushing for freedom in technology. Such as Purism's Libre laptops working to reach FSF apporval, and System76's work on deblobing their computers.

 No.2172

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> The future of computing should be F/OSS!
Why.

 No.2173

>>2172
The ability to to actually own the things you use. To not have government back doors thanks to the compliance of Intel and AMD. To seen reverb ideas and new methods of doing tasks by anyone being able to pick up the project and just run with it.

 No.2176

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I heard the Talon II is also FOSS.
Too bad it's incredibly expensive

 No.2182

>>2173
How does RISC-V help with that? It's an open architecture, not an actual implementation and definitively not a build-your-own-CPU-at-home kit.

 No.2188

>>2182

but average human may have better chance of homebrewing tinfoil cpu out of RISC-V specification and readily available open implementations than say x86 clone right?

 No.2192

>>2182
It doesn't have to be a ready to order CPU to make a difference. RISC-V is building steam, look at the semiconductor company SiFive. Once RISC breaks through in China I'm confident we'll start seeing more in mainstream devices.

 No.2193

Speaking of China this article highlights the hurdles that RISC has to jump through to make it big in the Chinese assembly lines and R&D.

https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1333976


First, most Chinese chip vendors are already invested heavily in Arm and beholden to it. It’s hard to break free from Arm’s stranglehold.

Given Arm’s well-established ecosystem and the fact that it provides the preferred processing core for Android smartphones, why should local companies who design and develop chips for Android phones switch to anything else?

Second, RISC-V isn’t a free core. Yes, RISC-V offers a free and open-source instruction set. But this doesn’t mean that there are a ton of “free cores” lying around if a Chinese company knocks on the door at the RISC-V Foundation.

Third, developing a CPU requires design expertise in several specialties. These include electronic logic, compilers, and operating systems. Chinese designers need first-hand experience with modern, high-quality general-purpose computer instruction sets.

Fourth, RISC-V is designed to create a unified community. In a lot of community efforts, Asian engineers are often more eager to “take” from the community than “contributing” to it. As Wayne Dai, CEO of VeriSilicon observed, “Chinese engineers aren’t used to ‘uploading’ their ideas. They should start from there.”

Fifth, China is a master of fragmentation.

Time and time again, when a standard is set elsewhere in the world, eager Chinese companies — hopeful of carving out their own niche — have created a variant “standard” with a Chinese flavor. Although “derivative” China standards have rarely caught on anywhere, the value of having a uniform foundation to which everyone agrees has yet to crack the great wall of Chinese exceptionalism.

 No.2282


 No.2284

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>mfw Intel ME
>mfw AMD PSP
Pathetic.

Avoiding the botnet is expensive as fuck lainons but worth it. I am happy with Intel ME gimped on my laptop but I am not upgrading until I have enough money saved for a Power9 system. Just a $1000 dollars more though the BlackBird is much cheaper. Power9 for the desktop and server and RISCV for embedded.

 No.2285

>2282
I mean it is cool and options are always nice but MIPS is opensource now because of how horribly it failed during its "come back".

 No.2287

>>2285
Did it fail because of technical problems or business?

 No.2290

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>>2287
Both it seems.

 No.2323

the x86 patents are expired, and they won't protect an instruction set (which is all it is now…).
Why not make unlicensed clones? Don't speak to me about "well they added extra registers for SSE2 etc". Obvious extention.

Then send in demonic zaibatsu enforcers if anyone trys to sue to stop you?????
WHY DON'T YOU DO THAT?

 No.2330

>>2323

Because x86 is a soykaf. You can run filthy chinese knock offs of a depreciated arch if you like though. I could not possibly think of you any less.

 No.2757

>>2188
>but average human may have better chance of homebrewing tinfoil cpu out of RISC-V specification and readily available open implementations than say x86 clone right?
And it will be more feasible. Because developing CorpCorps New CPU or Lain Workatation using an existing ISA means you can taken advatage of existing toolchains, linux , etc far easier than desigining your own assembler, compilier, porting or writing an os plus software.

Instead just implement hardware and get the software for free.



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