Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

[Dejan Lekic]

On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 08:09:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I contacted one of the few companies putting out RISC-V dev 
> boards, Sifive, a couple weeks ago with the suggestion of 
> making available a paid RISC-V VPS, and one of their field 
> engineers got back to me last week with a note that they're 
> looking into it.
>
> I think their model of having an open ISA with proprietary 
> extensions will inevitably win out for hardware, just as a 
> similar model has basically won already for software, but that 
> doesn't mean that RISC-V will be the one to do it. Someone else 
> might execute that model better.

I could not agree more - look at Parallella! Their model is the 
same yet it ultimately failed (unfortunately as I think Exynos is 
seriously good stuff)! :(