RISC-V: A New Era in Computing

Executive Summary:

• RISC-V is gaining traction in the embedded space
• Performance and fragmentation are major concerns
• Experts predict a bright future for RISC-V

The Buzz Score

The Internet’s Verdict: 70% Hyped, 30% Skeptical

Forum Voices

Experts weigh in on the RISC-V debate.

I think he’s kind of speaking past the original author. The original piece is basically about how the author doesn’t think that RISC-V will take off outside embedded, because of some design decisions that lead to poor performance compared to ARM64 and because so much of the ISA being optional means that there’s too much fragmentation to make binary distribution feasible.

He says: > From that position, the difference between a ten cent part and a one dollar part is not a rounding error and it is not a detail you get to wave past on the way to the interesting discussion about encodings

Conclusion

Experts believe RISC-V will have medium-level PC performance by the end of the 2020s.

Focus Keyword: RISC-V