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)! :(
