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'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC (www.techradar.com)

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[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago (22 children)

I REALLY hope something comes of this. But at the same time, I'm not sure if I would buy one myself. Compatibility with x86 is massively important to me, and I can't really divorce myself of it outside of portables. I just have too much investment in legacy software. Mostly video games to be fair. Which might be part of the reason for the push to RISC-V.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago (21 children)

I feel like most of the software I use nowadays is open source, so it wouldn't be too difficult to move over to RISCV once things get recompiled against it.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Yep. But PC video games are all x86. And I do like to escape.

[–] marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There are already "layers" with which you can emulate x86 on ARM with almost no performance drop, you can even play Crysis (!) on a phone now. The PC version.

Calling it that because im too lazy to explain rn and it works basically like the layers of a sandwich or burger

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