alt Hacker NewsIt's clear that RISC-V started as an academic exercise (albeit from a group with esteemed credentials) and they had to bolt on these hacks to make it work in industry.
Sad.
It's clear that RISC-V started as an academic exercise (albeit from a group with esteemed credentials) and they had to bolt on these hacks to make it work in industry.
Sad.
ARM was also rooted in an academic exercise. A lot of the drawbacks for modern ARM PC platforms stem from the aversion to actually advanced features like SVE/SVE2 and UEFI.
It's sad, but it was also wildly successful. RISC-V has already replaced ARM in highly-custom embedded spaces like Nvidia's GPU controllers, and it likely won't stop unless ARM finally changes their tune vis-a-vis licensing.