I for one can’t wait to be running a RISC-V system
No thanks, we don’t need another middle man. RISC V doesn’t need people paying licensing fees for it
As others have stated: https://riscv.org/about/
Now, there would still be a metric fuck ton of money involved. Chip fabs aren’t cheap, engineers aren’t cheap and project management isn’t cheap.
The open architecture means there is already a framework and R&D costs will also be limited. And yeah, no licensing fees like we already covered.
Without diving deep into RISC V, just because there is an open architecture doesn’t mean that there are machines capable of manufacturing whatever specs are required. Licensing fees for machining could be pure insanity.
Still, a few million (or billion?) is normal when it comes to making this stuff.
What does it mean, the “Arm” of RISC-V ?
Is there an open source version of Arm?
I think they mean that ARM became dominant by widely licencing its RISC architecture to pretty much anyone. This startup wants to make RISC V designs and licence them to various chip manufacturers - so they won’t be in the business of making chips themselves, just the design.
But as long as they are RISC V chips, then they would run the same software as any other RISC V chips.
