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Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU… and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn’t need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.
I’ve been trying to work with SBC’s for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just… annoying.
Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe
They really tried hard to make an acronym fit…
A bit like SHIELD
ARM is a UK-based company. If they hadn’t dropped out of EU, it’s possible they would have settled on an ARM-based supercomputer design.
Chalk it up to another WIN for Brexit!
ARM was bought by the Japanese, it’s no longer European. RISC-V is the future.
Not just by the Japanese but by Softbank and Son Masayoshi, the guy now doing buddy-buddy photo ops & “Stargate AI” with Trump.
I’m unexpectedly excited and hopeful for risc-v
Regardless of the outcome I just hope this doesn’t lead to more tribalism in software again. The FOSS community needs to stay strong on an international level whenever it comes to hardware integration etc.
I’ll contact the maintainers of all my favorite FOSS programs written in x86 assembler, to ask them to port the software to RISC-V.
Can anyone knowledgeable tell us if this is feasible, practical, or a good idea?
Yes, yes and yes, but it’ll take a while. It’s a six year project overall.
Considering that you can buy some Raspberry Pi micro computers (these are ARM architecture computers) for less than €100 that are performance competitive with a lot of existing hardware; this idea would make a ton of sense for Europe to implement. I think Europe could probably start designing and manufacturing chips locally within 2 to 5 years on the low end 5 to 10 years on the high end.
I love the raspberry pi, but it’s far from being competitive to something like an apple m4, a Qualcomm snapdragon or an am5 chip from AMD.
For its intended purpose it doesn’t need to, but it’s way slower and less power efficient.
ARM is proprietary tech owned by Softbank, whose boss Son Masayoshi was last seen cosying up to Trump with the “Stargate” AI consortium.
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lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.
(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)
What’s the give away there? Not doubting just wondering.
I see impedance matched traces so seems like something fast, but that’s all I’d be able to guess.
The connection also looks like a RAM stick’s. I think.
Anyone else remember when Phil Schiller bored the Macworld expo to death explaining why RISC was better than CISC?
afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.
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