• propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe
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    I hope so.

    I don’t know if RISC-V is the answer because it’s RISC, but more open technology is always a good thing.

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    Not likely for long time , but could be a sleeper in case things go sideways down the line. We are not likely to be making them at home as other commentators suggest… im expecting it to give arm a run for its money if politics gets really bad. The global south will likely make good use of it in that case. Also who knows. Linux was in this position a while.ago and that was an awesome surprise.

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    There’s so much closed-source business software that only runs on x64 that x64 will be here for a very long time.

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      AWS might be a big help here. My company likes that their ARM instances are cheaper and keeps pushing to use more software on them. We’re moving off x64 as least as we can.

      (Engineering laptops are Macs, so it’s just management on their windows laptops)

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    Will RISC-V overtake x86? maybe. Depends of enshitification of Intel. Board decisions in recent years weren’t good according to semi-analisys.

    Will it overtake ARM? No in a very long time. It has too much momentum to crash. And Risc-v doesn’t have big bucks behind it.

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    For countries on the US export nono list it will be. As the US control of x86 via AMD and Intel sould be a concern.

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    You have one if you have Nvidia GPU or use Google TPU for machine learning so probably every time you use google. It’s part of Mars exploration hardware. RISC-V is not marketed as consumer product but it’s overtaking world more than people know. Every future business like IoT, AI, space exploration is using risc-v chips. Will it be adopted in household devices like mobile phones / computers / tablets ?
    Maybe when Apple starts shipping it, why Apple ? Because they’re only ones that can do it at massive scale, they switched architectures twice.
    Just look up this job, to see where is the future.
    https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200571653/soc-small-cores-engineering-program-manager

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    Depends on how much brain power will flow into this, and how open this will be.

    There was an article today that a bunch of top brains from Intel jumped ship and are going to work on RISC-V, and the Chinese government has an interest to further an architecture independent of X86 and ARM.

    But those works will take a few years before they can be considered alternatives to ARM or even X86, even if they throw in loads of man-years.

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    This super geeky and technical question does not belong in a generalist community.

    PS: sure, I’ll get downvoted, but consider the possibility of selection bias. If you’re reading this thread, you clicked out of interest. How many others scrolled past “X86/X64 arm blablabla” while subconsciously noting “Lemmy = tech talk”?

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      Lemmy is still small, so I think its generally considered acceptable to ask these questions.

      Edit: Besides, most of us lemmings are nerds, so it fits this community well.

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        By that standard every community from gardening to history will be overrun with techie talk. Makes no sense.

        If a generalist community is a bit less busy but on-topic, I call that a win. Communities should be built on shared interests and normies will never be interested in this subject.

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    No sooner than we would be able to make chips at home. Of course, it would be illegal at start, but eventually… Well, not in the nearest 2-3 decades.