Not my area of expertise but what exactly is the difference between RISC-V and Power PC? Didn't Power-PC get a good run in the 90s and 2000s? Just wondering why there's renewed interest in RISC-like architectures when industry already had a good exploration of that area.
It is Chinese companies looking for ARM alternative that push this otherwise mediocre ISA.
It is possible that ARM based CPUs will start eating x86 market slowly. See snapdragon X2 and upcoming Nvidia CPU. Maybe in 10 years new computers will be ARM based and a lot of IoT will run on risc-5.
While its current performance is not competitive, there are currently interesting options. I got the orange pi riscv version, mainly to test riscv while it's slow compared to other arm socs, it's still better than I expected. There are even risc v TPUs now.
i've been hearing about arm computer for almost twenty years and only just recently general-purpose decently-priced arm laptops have been released (qualcomm laptops, the macbook neo).
and arm desktop are still not a thing, in practice.
I think the Surface Laptops (2018?) count, and arguably the previous models (2012+) sorta-kinda count (tablet + keyboard).
Side note: It's kinda funny to me that "the keyboard is detachable, the screen is glass and you can touch/write on it" makes it "lesser" than a laptop rather than being an upgrade.
But yeah, definitely happy to see more in this space. Now we just need e-Paper laptops to take off as well :)
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Not my area of expertise but what exactly is the difference between RISC-V and Power PC? Didn't Power-PC get a good run in the 90s and 2000s? Just wondering why there's renewed interest in RISC-like architectures when industry already had a good exploration of that area.
It is Chinese companies looking for ARM alternative that push this otherwise mediocre ISA.
It is possible that ARM based CPUs will start eating x86 market slowly. See snapdragon X2 and upcoming Nvidia CPU. Maybe in 10 years new computers will be ARM based and a lot of IoT will run on risc-5.
I’m looking forward to using a RISC-V computer in 20 years
While its current performance is not competitive, there are currently interesting options. I got the orange pi riscv version, mainly to test riscv while it's slow compared to other arm socs, it's still better than I expected. There are even risc v TPUs now.
This underestimates the will of governments and companies Europe and especially China to reduce their dependency on US-controlled technology.
unironically, this.
i've been hearing about arm computer for almost twenty years and only just recently general-purpose decently-priced arm laptops have been released (qualcomm laptops, the macbook neo).
and arm desktop are still not a thing, in practice.
Well, Apple M1/M2/etc. are, technically, ARMv8, and they're available as desktops.
Also the Acorn Archimedes is, technically, an ARM / RISC desktop.
I think the Surface Laptops (2018?) count, and arguably the previous models (2012+) sorta-kinda count (tablet + keyboard).
Side note: It's kinda funny to me that "the keyboard is detachable, the screen is glass and you can touch/write on it" makes it "lesser" than a laptop rather than being an upgrade.
But yeah, definitely happy to see more in this space. Now we just need e-Paper laptops to take off as well :)
I have an ARM desktop from 1986 or 1987
https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/A500.h...
Huh? that link returned:
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