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I still think Linus is wrong here. Arm is already getting significant traction in the server space without a popular development platform. The only actual...

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Arm based desktops have been available for many years now, see eg. https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-desktops.html. They are not cheap since these use high-end...

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Is it really foolish? There is no doubt they looked at RISC-V/MIPS and copied some ideas since it is MIPS-like, but overall LoongArch is better than both....

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Like x86 and Thumb-2, RISC-V variable length instructions will be problematic for wide implementations. And due to missing many useful instructions, having...

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Typical. When you've lost the argument, just resort to personal attacks.

RISC-V is almost like a religion, we must all bow to its superiority,...

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Nobody is locked in. You can design your own core or if even switch ISAs as software is portable. Any extra flexibility of RISC-V is theoretical - it's...

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It's certainly a waste of time posting if you can't separate facts from fiction. So you now agree there are no high performance RISC-V cores... Designing...

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The existing Arm ecosystem made things easier, but they still had to start from scratch since AArch64 is not backwards compatible with Arm or Thumb-2....

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No, AArch64 is as old as RISC-V, and had to bootstrap from scratch as well. Being free and open hasn't exactly been an advantage, has it?

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RISC-V was designed for tiny microcontrollers, and this makes it harder to implement a high performance core. Theoretically one could put x86 levels of...

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Not handling unaligned accesses efficiently is yet another serious mistake of RISC-V. Most small microcontrollers support it today. However RISC-V will...

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I already posted lots of data, but here is another one: a 2.6GHz Cortex-A53 scores 208/820. Despite the old process, this is one of the best A53 implementations,...

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You should ask brucehoult that since he is the one making claims without any evidence. I'm simply debunking those ridiculous claims.

I have...