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To: neolib who wrote (33707)	10/31/2019 2:51:50 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 73772

risc V will face the same issues that ARM faced in trying to capture higher end markets. SOFTWARE. It is NOT about the hardware, as you can build an LLVM interface for C and other programming languages, but the native Linux and OS systems that are needed, along with backwards compatibility take a long time and a lot of work. If I handed you a completed CPU that had hardware specs to outrun AMD and Intel right now, it would be 5-7 years and a few thousand man years until there was enough SW infrastructure to capture a large part of the market. Look for the SW startups and SW support streams that enable the risc V stuff and that will be a better gauge than when they have a chip. I build a very good AI processor in 2010 to 2012, and it ran amazingly well, however the CEO was short sighted about the worth of a deep base of software to support it. We failed, not because the HW was not fast and worked much better than Intel processors, we failed because it was too hard to build a large software base quick enough to service the market. We had a rack of servers that outran the google stuff on some hand built applications, but no general case SW to run all the rest of the things.