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ARM domain purchase leaks pivot to RISC-V
brucehoult:
Found on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35405463
http://arm2riscv.com/
tom66:
Either they are pivoting towards RISC-V or (imo) much more likely it's a Microsoft-style FUD campaign ("Linux - Get the Facts Straight" and other examples) against RISC-V listing all the reasons you shouldn't jump ship towards RISC-V. I think Arm are very worried about RISC-V as it's very possible that a free-as-in-freedom architecture could be competitive. It would only take a big OEM, like Samsung or Apple, announcing they were ditching ARM for RISC-V to really rock the boat. Conversely, it would be a fairly open move for Arm to get involved with RISC-V, though probably welcome.
I'm also seeing a few job ads in my area for companies looking for ASIC/HDL/verification engineers to develop alternatives to Mali GPUs that interoperate with RISC-V. That could be an interesting area to watch. Specifically, I think this could relate to this story, where Arm has said that they will not allow alternatives to Mali to be used within ARM devices. IMO, that kind of behaviour is just suicide from a business perspective, for a company that has previously depended upon a very open ecosystem to support them. It's crazy to think how much damage SoftBank may have done to a British engineering institution within a decade. There is speculation that SoftBank's CEO is extremely bitter over the Nvidia takeover deal being canned by the UK government, as it may have given them a way out of the mess they got into in the first place over Arm (it could be argued they paid too much for the company).
ataradov:
So, the whole evidence is that they have the same registrar? Sounds pretty weak.
brucehoult:
Some may remember ARM's "riscv-basics.com" site in July 2018. It was taken down two days later, and they've even removed it from the Internet Archive, but something has been preserved:
https://github.com/arm-facts/arm-basics.com/blob/master/index.md
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arm-facts/arm-basics.com/master/assets/img/riscv-basics.com-screenshot.jpg
At that time the only RISC-V hardware you could buy was SiFive's Arduino-like HiFive1 and their brand new a couple of months earlier $999 HiFive Unleashed quad core 1.5 GHz Linux board.
The Kendryte K210 wasn't announced yet. The Gigadevice GD32VF103 wasn't announced yet.
brucehoult:
--- Quote from: ataradov on April 02, 2023, 12:53:15 am ---So, the whole evidence is that they have the same registrar? Sounds pretty weak.
--- End quote ---
Everything in the registration is redacted so it's kind of hard to know. Except "Organization: ARM Limited", which I guess anyone could put.
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