What do you guys think about RISC-V?

[KhakiHat]

There has been a lot of talk about the limitations of x86 or ARM as a format. RISC-V supposedly wants to make a more universally accepted architecture with the implementations of an open license.

 

Thoughts?

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I'm just now hearing about RISC-V

 

This is the vid that got me interested but you know how the internet works, take it like a grain of salt 

 

 

[Sauron]

I think it's great, we needed a fully open source ISA. Once someone starts making hardware that can actually compete with the big players I hope we'll see more of it. I already have a risc-v based AI/computer vision dev board.

[KhakiHat]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

I think it's great, we needed a fully open source ISA. Once someone starts making hardware that can actually compete with the big players I hope we'll see more of it. I already have a risc-v based AI/computer vision dev board.

I didn't know that they were already that far along in development

 

Got a link for a dev board?

[Jarno.]

I think its a good thing don't know much about open/closed instruction sets but I do about closed protocols making things more difficult then they should be. (Reverse engineering stuff) Yes, looking at you SMB

[KhakiHat]

5 minutes ago, Jarno. said:

I think its a good thing don't know much about open/closed instruction sets but I do about closed protocols making things more difficult then they should be. (Reverse engineering stuff) Yes, looking at you SMB

If it turns out to have as much capability as they hope, it could be a game changer for both the commercial and consumer market I think

[Jarno.]

1 minute ago, KhakiHat said:

If it turns out to have as much capability as they hope, it could be a game changer for both the commercial and consumer market I think

Might also make things easier for developers i guess because its easier to port over between different devices. Now there are to many different instructions to chose from.

[KhakiHat]

Just now, Jarno. said:

Might also make things easier for developers i guess because its easier to port over between different devices. Now there are to many different instructions to chose from.

Also once you choos a particular architecture to develop from, it's a lot harder to spread out to other architectures. Be it x86 to arm or vice versa.

 

Rules always makes things more difficult for dev

[Sauron]

24 minutes ago, KhakiHat said:

I didn't know that they were already that far along in development

 

Got a link for a dev board?

sure http://www.electronics-lab.com/maixduino-sipeeds-new-neural-network-maix-based-board/