• MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Ngl I have no clue why this technology is so newsworthy rn

    It’s because of openness/royalties.
    RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture based on RISC principles. RISC itself is just a design type. ARM is based on RISC too, but it’s proprietary.

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      6 months ago

      ARM even means “Advanced RISC Machines”. They changed the official name to ARM but I don’t think they actually reinterpreted it.