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Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | Beebom (beebom.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

In theory yes, in practice I'm not so sure. Risc-V is BSD, so whatever company chooses to make it, can change it as they like and completely ruin compatibility.
I don't think it will work, because the BSD license doesn't protect it from whatever abuse any maker feels like.
I do follow it as a potential alternative, and alternatives are always nice.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

That makes absolutely no sense. No company is going to go through all the trouble of making an entirely different processor that will need all new toolchains when risc-v is free. It's a monumental undertaking. MAYBE china, but who cares? Don't buy chinese chips.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They will make it incompatible exactly for the purpose of it being incompatible for proprietary purposes, the history of IT is riddled with examples of this being the goto strategy to maintain complete control of the ecosphere you create Apple is probably the best example of this. CPU has been an exception only because they traditionally aren't designed by the product companies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So just use another chip... the whole point of RISCv is that anyone can make chips.

risc-v is maturing at a breakneck pace:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24181278/framework-laptop-risc-v-laptop-isa-arm-amd-intel-x86

https://riscv.org/news/2024/06/worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-gets-a-massive-upgrade-and-equips-with-ubuntu/