“Most of them will fail complete without ever anybody hearing about them. But even the successful ones take a stumble or two,” says Torvalds.
    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      361·
      5 months ago

      Sorry, but that is completely wrong. RISC-V is an ISA, nothing less, nothing more, and it is completely, 100% open-source. The licensing of the hardware implementations is a different matter, but that’s outside of the scope of RISC-V. As I said, it is just an ISA.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      There’s plenty of designs out there that you can load onto an FPGA or, funds permitting, send off to a fab to burn into silicon.