[SunkenCiv]

RISC-V is trying to launch an open-hardware revolution | Engadget | Upscaled

[ShadowAce]

[USS Alaska]

I sold for the first commercial company that produced a RISC {reduced instruction set computer} - UNIX computer, named Pyramid in the early 80s.

The company was successful enough to be bought out by Siemans {I think}.

Most computer start ups that are successful sell out within the first 10-15 years because the founders and investors want the millions that come with a sell out.

No harm there, but the technology gets swallowed up and disappears within a few short years.

The idea if a RISC computer is over 50 years old but different implementation will keep people poking around at it forever.

[Paal Gulli]

Sun's SPARC servers all ran RISC chipsets and Sun's Solaris operating systems ran on RISC-architecture chipsets exclusively. And AFAIK there was never a M$ server OS that would run on SPARC hardware. There were a few flavors of Linux that would run on SPARC servers but for the better part, if you were a *NIX nutter and bought a SPARCStation for your personal entertainment, you were going to have to run Solaris on it.

[Still Thinking]

RISCy!

[backwoods-engineer]

Western Digital believes it will soon have shipped 1 billion RISC-V processors in its disk drives. They are a big believer in RISC-V. Many companies are evaluating it as an alternative to ARM. ARM has large licensing costs. RISC-V does not.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

For me it seems like ARM is taking over the world. Also innovation in the chip space is way harder than in the software space things are much more entrenched. I don’t see this beating out ARM.