alt Hacker NewsRISC V making its way into proper server platforms is a huge milestone. The open architecture could eventually disrupt the current vendor lock in we see in cloud data centers.
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fragmede • yesterday at 10:57 AM
Which axis of vendor lock in are you seeing possibly being disrupted by this? x86 is rather dominant, though ARM is making a play. RISC V just means AWS offers a different ISA on compute, you'd still be vendor lock-in'd to AWS/whomever. Or I'm totally not getting it.
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I don't doubt RISC-V can be used to make powerful cores but adoption as a general purpose CPU (rather than MCU) will need more than good numbers.
There's still a missing piece in the RISC-V ecosystem: a coordination body of platform-level standards. Debian took a stand with RVA23 support but then there's a ton of little things that are taken for granted on the PC platform such as UEFI and ACPI (as horrible as they may be).