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Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

isnt ARM the same?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So does x86. The difference is license. Just like how Intel and AMD have a VERY different design (implementation) as of now, so does RISC-V. Any vendor can implement it however they want, but they won't have to pay anyone for using RISC-V ISA