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Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year (www.theregister.com)

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Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year

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[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's an admirable goal, and I applaud the immense effort undertaken to make the OSS dream true.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

The ISA may be open but I'm pretty sure the microarchitecture will be totally proprietary. Even with a kick ass microarchitecture they may still struggle if they can't use the latest process nodes to actually manufacture the chips.

Having said that I suspect the main challenge RISCV is going to face is the software ecosystem. That stuff can take a decade to build and requires a degrees of cooperation between all the companies building chips.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they're doing this for oss reasons

I don't think they're even required to publish the design, they could keep it proprietary

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

They're not. They're doing it because they fear being SOL if America/the West enforces more sanctions on things like ARM chips/designs or Intel, etc.

And yes, IIRC RISC-V is MIT licensed or something close. Basically companies can take it and implement whatever on top and not have to contribute back.