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.
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-managerNot 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.
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.
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.
Home-made chips are illegal? Where?
I mean if its an open standard, what’s stopping you?
I don’t think making semiconductors at home is explicitly illegal anywhere, but I doubt hobbyists can legally buy or synthesize many of the chemicals you’d need
Yeah, and no offense… Noone is gonna make wafers at home. Theres a reason a fab costs so much
Because they’re fabulous?
are illegal?
Not now. But it surely will be as soon as we would be able to make something useful at home.
Makes me wonder how close one can get to a modern day CPU, using an of the shelve FPGA
Very expensive and still slower than an hard coded ASIC.
Like first gen raspberry pi?
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”?
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.
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.
What do you see as “general” topics? And why wouldn’t tech talks be a part of it?
