Can anyone knowledgeable tell us if this is feasible, practical, or a good idea?
I’m unexpectedly excited and hopeful for risc-v
Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU… and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn’t need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.
I’ve been trying to work with SBC’s for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just… annoying.
China:
lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.
(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)
What’s the give away there? Not doubting just wondering.
I see impedance matched traces so seems like something fast, but that’s all I’d be able to guess.
Anyone else remember when Phil Schiller bored the Macworld expo to death explaining why RISC was better than CISC?
afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.
