08-20-2019, 12:22 AM
no, it's like beer, that only exist as an advertizement and promises and the brand beer, that exists for a century.
you say you are a fan of RISC-V. what its advantages over MIPS/ARM/SPARC/POWER are? is there something else except that illusional "freedom", which is a plain and exploitive marketing balderdash?
I don't know about SPARC, but POWER is well suited for mobile/embedded world. Freeascale, now NXP make mobile processors with this architecture. they are used in a broad range of things, from routers to secret military appliances. I doubt SPARC as an ISA inherently isn't scalable to fit the low power range.
the point is, it's a bit sad and annoying, that on one side you see how MIPS/SPARC are fading away because there is no much interest - the current owner of MIPS doesn't seem to grasp what to do with it and to set it up to compete with ARM, so everything is left is to license ancient IPs for home routers/switches. Oracle silently discards its hardware business acquired fron Sun, so the only real producer of SPARC CPUs is Fujitsu. and the same time this clueless hype about RISC-V that brings nothing new, nothing distinguishing, still people already are "fans" of it. why? Imagination released a full featured SBC mith a MIPS CPU - Mips Creator CI20, I have it. in 2015, it has dual core CPU at 1.2 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, pretty nice SBC. and the price was ok. somehow, there was no hype and the board got forgotten. I ask myself - what that RISC-V has, that MIPS or ARM don't, that will guarantee it to stay on the scene? after the hype based on nothing practical nor reasonable has evaporated, what is left?
Itanium is officially discontinued, POWER, SPARC and MIPS are in a deep niche. the two architectures dominate - x86 and ARM, and that will stay for a long time. I think RISC-V won't harm ARM's position at all. the pointless excitement will fade away eventually and that's all. making noisy promises on being more free than others is not enough for success.
you say you are a fan of RISC-V. what its advantages over MIPS/ARM/SPARC/POWER are? is there something else except that illusional "freedom", which is a plain and exploitive marketing balderdash?
I don't know about SPARC, but POWER is well suited for mobile/embedded world. Freeascale, now NXP make mobile processors with this architecture. they are used in a broad range of things, from routers to secret military appliances. I doubt SPARC as an ISA inherently isn't scalable to fit the low power range.
the point is, it's a bit sad and annoying, that on one side you see how MIPS/SPARC are fading away because there is no much interest - the current owner of MIPS doesn't seem to grasp what to do with it and to set it up to compete with ARM, so everything is left is to license ancient IPs for home routers/switches. Oracle silently discards its hardware business acquired fron Sun, so the only real producer of SPARC CPUs is Fujitsu. and the same time this clueless hype about RISC-V that brings nothing new, nothing distinguishing, still people already are "fans" of it. why? Imagination released a full featured SBC mith a MIPS CPU - Mips Creator CI20, I have it. in 2015, it has dual core CPU at 1.2 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, pretty nice SBC. and the price was ok. somehow, there was no hype and the board got forgotten. I ask myself - what that RISC-V has, that MIPS or ARM don't, that will guarantee it to stay on the scene? after the hype based on nothing practical nor reasonable has evaporated, what is left?
Itanium is officially discontinued, POWER, SPARC and MIPS are in a deep niche. the two architectures dominate - x86 and ARM, and that will stay for a long time. I think RISC-V won't harm ARM's position at all. the pointless excitement will fade away eventually and that's all. making noisy promises on being more free than others is not enough for success.
ANT - my hobby OS for x86 and ARM.