I don't have high hopes for this having a great effect for the POWER archetechture. Sun did something extremely simelar in the past with OpenSPARC, and it never went anywhere. Beyond that, the...
I don't have high hopes for this having a great effect for the POWER archetechture. Sun did something extremely simelar in the past with OpenSPARC, and it never went anywhere.
Beyond that, the thing that makes RISC-V particularly interesting is it's scalability. There are already smaller businesses who make their business model around customized RISC-V chips. It will get very exciting indeed if RISC-V starts overtaking x86 in performance; that would allow us to have one open platform that can be used for basically every use scenario.
I feel like this would've been a much bigger deal if this had happened 10 years ago. PowerPC used to be quite popular in embedded applications back then - all three of the major game consoles back...
I feel like this would've been a much bigger deal if this had happened 10 years ago. PowerPC used to be quite popular in embedded applications back then - all three of the major game consoles back used Power - and the flexibility to freely create and design your own chips may have given Power a significant advantage over ARM despite the latter's better power efficiency. But at this point, with ARM dominating, I fear it's too little too late to bring Power back to relevance...
I don't have high hopes for this having a great effect for the POWER archetechture. Sun did something extremely simelar in the past with OpenSPARC, and it never went anywhere.
Beyond that, the thing that makes RISC-V particularly interesting is it's scalability. There are already smaller businesses who make their business model around customized RISC-V chips. It will get very exciting indeed if RISC-V starts overtaking x86 in performance; that would allow us to have one open platform that can be used for basically every use scenario.
I feel like this would've been a much bigger deal if this had happened 10 years ago. PowerPC used to be quite popular in embedded applications back then - all three of the major game consoles back used Power - and the flexibility to freely create and design your own chips may have given Power a significant advantage over ARM despite the latter's better power efficiency. But at this point, with ARM dominating, I fear it's too little too late to bring Power back to relevance...