> These posts are always hijacked into an Apple discussion
Or occasionally by RISC-V "enthusiasts" who claim that none of it matters since ARM is dead and everybody is going to switch to RISC-V in the very near (but undetermined) future..
Or occasionally by RISC-V "enthusiasts" who claim that none of it matters since ARM is dead and everybody is going to switch to RISC-V in the very near (but undetermined) future..
Not dead (yet). Just a legacy ISA.
>everybody is going to switch to RISC-V
RISC-V is inevitable.
Exactly, I find this sort of fanaticism about an instruction set (of all things) so puzzling.
Many of the comments which mention RISC-V have anything constructive to say or any meaningful arguments. All the fanboyism makes me feel a bit like I'm on reddit (or worse)...
I recognize the value of some level of coordination in marketing efforts, and as I'm no expert I just follow their recommendations, like "RISC-V is inevitable".
Neoverse N2 chips should have been available years ago. Once Jim Keller releases his Ascalon server RISC-V CPUs that are competitive with Zen x86 server CPUs, there is basically no room for ARM servers left since ARM couldn't manage to get their feet into the server market soon enough. So many ARM server vendors canceled their CPU projects, to the point that the safest prediction you can make about any new ARM server CPU is that it will be canceled. The thing about ARM is that it is already dead in the server market.