i was replying to the point that all hardware is made by large corporations. That will not change, irrelevant of whether the isa is open source or not.
and arm do not manufacture chips. Usually tsmc or samsung do. The fact that chips exist is orthogonal to the argument of who ends up manufacturing them
I like the idea of RISC-V, but I need something like a Raspberry Pi except RISC-V. I can accept a little jank, but it needs to be “good enough” if you catch my drift.
Are there any performance benchmarks for the Star64?
Pine64 claims the chip to have performance similar to certain Cortex-A55 processors, which would put the Star64 on par with the Raspberry 4 series. Is that true?
Except all our hardware is made by major corporationw and there are no major corporations that work totally ethically and morally
Hmm maybe we’ll run FreeDOS on breadboarded (vintage) 8086s and live in caves 😂.
A Microsoft (stolen) design and the most evil CPU arch?
At least caves might be ethically sourced.
Freedos is not MSDos though. And how is x86 evil?
Have you ever tried programming in straight x86 assembly? :P
RISC-V is a good start though
pretty hard to do computation on a pdf. which is what risc-v is. You need someone to design and build a chip according to what’s in those pdfs
Are you aware that it is now 2023 and RISC-V computers are available to the public?
i was replying to the point that all hardware is made by large corporations. That will not change, irrelevant of whether the isa is open source or not.
You know there’s tons of real chips out already and more coming all the time?
ARM is as much just a spec at heart.
and arm do not manufacture chips. Usually tsmc or samsung do. The fact that chips exist is orthogonal to the argument of who ends up manufacturing them
Yes but who is going to manufacture that chip and board and components?
3D printers, eventually?
Perhaps, but that’s quite far away still
I like the idea of RISC-V, but I need something like a Raspberry Pi except RISC-V. I can accept a little jank, but it needs to be “good enough” if you catch my drift.
Have you seen the Star64?
Are there any performance benchmarks for the Star64?
Pine64 claims the chip to have performance similar to certain Cortex-A55 processors, which would put the Star64 on par with the Raspberry 4 series. Is that true?