In a perfect world, where both Apple and Microsoft abandons x86 for ARM as Moore’s Law comes to an end. Linux and open source takes the spear of the future with RISC-V.
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Honestly, if RISC-V gets a fraction of Raspberry PI's popularity I will be one happy nerd. Want this in my home as a full OSS server.
now we just have to wait until nvidia fucks up arm for everyone else with their traditional predatory tactics 🤗
Apple has already put ARM on their phones and I believe their latest laptops have the M1 chips that are ARM. Also I don't think Moore's Law has to end. Why do you include that detail?
Moore's law has fundamental limits in that transistors can only get so small before the electrons begin to quantum tunnel through them. After which, you can only increase the number of transistors by increasing the size of the chip. I think some roadmaps predict that circuits will become more and more specialized so that the performance increases without having to increase the size.
point is, both Apple and Microsoft is moving away from x86 in favor of ARM. my wish (in a perfect world) would be that Linux is able to push RISC-V ahead of the competition for all things IT.
I really hope Beaglebone make good on this promise, as I'd like to own at least one of these boards. It needs to have a GPU chip on it to be as handy as a RPi - I'm not sure that a RISC-V GPU exists... yet.
The software has a little way to go to be good enough for Jo/e Average's use too - no browser in RISC-V Debian yet, nor LibreOffice (not that I use that, but I'm just sayin')
Still - people in the know suggest that it will have the power of between a RPi 3 and 4 - so it's going to be a handy device. Great as a server.