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[–] 17 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

At a technical level it's still young and most likely not as powerful as other similar platforms, but on a legal level the instruction set is an open standard and royaltee-free, so it can't be embargoed through licensing like ARM or other instruction sets.

I'm happy to see more openness in hardware.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Wait so ARM isn't open? Ok now it makes sense

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    No it's not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (6 children)

    I still don't understand. Is it like RHEL (they give you all the source code) or more like Windows?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's neither. It's a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

    So it's more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Too technical; didn't understand. I prefer RISC-V at this point

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How can you have a preference if you don't understand?

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