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The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's a small and good step towards open architectures, but it's bound to be restricted to a few developers and enthusiasts... It can't and it won't ever compete in the current market on its own. The only reason why Chinese companies are able to compete in that market is because they receive a shit ton of state incentives

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

For sure, it's still nice to see this stuff happening even if we're still in early days.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

The only reason why Chinese companies are able to compete in that market is because they receive a shit ton of state incentives

New architectures becoming commonplace seems impossible in the beginning but past a certain point of investment they achieve a critical mass and begin thriving. Personal computers moving to ARM would have seemed impossible to me ten years ago but it is a reality now.

Chinese software ecosystem being a little bit detached from the Western ecosystem would also make its emergence a lot easier.

Obviously it all hinges on whether RISCV is soemthing that is considered worth seriously investing in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is mainstream Linux distro support?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

not sure