It can only succeed if big companies pay a small royalty fee for using RISC-V architecture like out of the goodness of their heart.
@mito88 Says:
was linux compiled in riscv?
@salacryl Says:
Very good video!
@BigEightiesNewWave Says:
RISC-Y Business.
@developersharif Says:
What a dream!
@Sheerwinter Says:
i love everything open-source. :))) linux+risc v is the holy grail ;-; future is super bright.
@XoXoX_Canal Says:
Very Good Device
@BigDeeZiy Says:
Thank you for your wonderful perspective on risc-v I love open isa.
@abdussamed107 Says:
I really hope RISC V ir any other open source CPU structure takes over the world market very soon....
@abdussamed107 Says:
Go RISC V, Go RISC V🎉🎉🎉. STOP THE MONOPOLISTIC AMD and Intel market.
@justinwatson1510 Says:
The best way to support innovation is by removing the profit motive from the equation. Greedy middle men are the biggest obstacle to innovation. We need communism.
@liminal27 Says:
Here to learn more after Vitalik Buterin's proposal to replace the current Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) with a RISC-V implementation.
@gammaphonic Says:
RISC-V is the Linux of CPUs. Absolutely useless to ordinary people who just use computers as a means to an end. But enthusiasts will swear it’s the greatest thing to ever exist.
@GrahamAtDesk Says:
Cracking video there Chris. Key points, succinctly made. 👍
@Renan.7669 Says:
thank you for the great video.
@lazerpie101_A Says:
I can't wait for viable RISC-V laptops, dying to see the power efficiency.
Also want to see just how well potential translation layers for x86 and ARM will perform.
@NightDescendant Says:
I'm getting the opportunity to work with one of my workplace's risc-v based projects, which I'm very excited to learn more about in the months to come. I'll just be on the periphery related to test development, but I hope to learn more soon
@malcolmjacquard4689 Says:
Dear Christopher @ExplainingComputers,
thank you for the effort you put into this video. It definitely worked out. I especially like the calm, gentle and precise way you get into the topic and gave hints on related subjects without getting distracted. Thus thank you very much and keep it up.
Best regards,
Markus
P.S. I'm an enterprise data center administrator and always happy to learn about upcoming technologies and their possible influences. Thus thank you once again, this has indeed been educative.
@SalamCast Says:
PowerPC (old school Macs, IBM and others) and SPARC64 (SUN) are also RISC, but closed
@travisporco Says:
ASICs always beat CPUs for specialized tasks. How is it really possible that RISC really helps? Isn't the advantage of ARM more about instructions of a uniform size more than RISCiness in particular?
@TheEuphonium412 Says:
FYI: this should be included in your RISC-V playlist
@rob59214 Says:
How did you miss Tenstorrent RISC-V AI Cards? Chip architect veteran Jim Keller going all in one RISC-V definitely news.
@DaniMartArts Says:
Ok, I'm an idiot, and my head is spinning.
I gather that every desktop and laptop computer relies on CPU (cheap Chinese computers) and GPU (expensive American computers) marketing in order to sell the pinnacle of inevitable slop.
But then ARM (scam International advertisements) came along and gave us handheld devices that proliferated the social media marketplace (Google) as distinct from the retail store marketplace (Microsoft).
And now between these two juggernaut markets is the race to NPU (artificial Corporation intelligence) marketing, which sort of puts everybody into a problem.
If x86 is the master of CPU, and ARM is the master of GPU, then RISC-V has to become the master of NPU in order to break the monopoly ecology.
However, sneaking up behind the NPU is the "QPU" or Quantum Processor Unit, and it has the ability to function as a super-calculator for all CPU, GPU, and NPU functions running x86, ARM, and RISC-V, is actually capable of making all these proprietary and open source things completely irrelevant and obsolete in that nothing has to be configured to anything if it has a QPU making itself work for anything, for this quantum calculator solves everything.
The illusion that there is going to further be a digital or retail marketplace in the QPU era is very quickly evaporating, especially if anybody makes a cloud-based subscription data center running a public QPU on an SMR (small modular reactor) power facility, that micro-computers accessing probably not a Wi-Fi 9G network but rather more likely servicing as a user interface upon the household replacement of the physical telephone line for true quantum signal fidelity, will be the municipal utility of tomorrow.
Anybody running personal devices will essentially be operating privately in the same way that old car collectors struggle to make highly polluting gas for their outdated egos, however, just as some of these really old vehicles can be Frankensteined into running on a battery and be self-driving, that the nature of innovation from insanity inevitably guarantees that the jump from municipal QPU to citizen Android is really where today's companies should be placing their marketing goal horizons of tomorrow.
Just like in human anatomy, evolution should just as well endow the android with both in-dated and out-dated CPU, GPU, NPU, and QPU architectures, but in order to get there, somebody has to bring into market a modern computer device that has all of these things already cooked into it.
This is where I shake my head at the stubborn laziness of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Not only do they insist on "being a Linux but not really", that unless I'm wrong in this assertion, Raspberry Pi is the only Linux with its own hardware devices, unlike all the rest such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc., which rely on recycling Microsoft capable devices like parasites. The tragedy is that they're supposed to vigorate innovation by making people learn how to build and program computers, as an actual educational platform, has yet to step-up and be the teacher of civilization that we need them to be. If anybody in the world is going to make a RISC-V NPU computer, it should be on Raspberry Pi hardware, because that's the optimal way to distribute such an open source advancement. We can only get to that point however, if the Raspberry Pi Foundation learns to develop some ambition and come earnestly into the North American household. It's time to shed that non-profit nonsense and start competing for humanity's sake!
Raspberry Pi should have as much market power as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon, Huawei, such and so forth, and I think it's time to force them to.
@jonathanstein6056 Says:
I love these videos - people need to learn about, and understand, RISC-V. In theory, anyone with an FPGA can design their own RISC-V processor. I only disagree on one issue - tariffs. Countries like China, and in Europe, have MASSIVE tariffs on US goods, and have for years. “Free Trade” is imbalanced. The US is just doing to others what has been done to them for half a century. If Countries drop their tariffs on US goods, then there will be no reciprocal tariffs. Free trade must be FAIR trade. US producers must not face massive export barriers. It’s not right.
@javiersp Says:
First and foremost congratulations on the video, you have gained a subscriber.
IMO RISC matters not just because it is already widely used on embedded devices (A LOT) but because for the last two years China is pushing all its technological might to develop a RISC-V processor and design to replace x86 and ARM and gain independence from the USA.
They have recently released a RISC-V processor for AI operations that Alibaba is going to widely use within its datacenters. And they have open sourced it. And this is just beginning. Expect serious moves from them this year and the following ones regarding this.
Sure, it will not happen in the span of a year but I give them 5 years tops to release seriously competitive processors for desktop, laptop, mobile and server markets equal to x86 or ARM alternatives or even superior. And wait for the open source community to jump train.
The consumers win, companies and builders win, the only ones that lose are US based chip manufacturers.
@thiesenf Says:
RISC-V matters because Intel Management Engine (AMD do have something similar)...
I don't know if ARM has something similar though...
@mardus_ee Says:
Intel and AMD are the two major makers and developers of the x86 and x64 architecture.
To complement the 5:10 part:
VIA (Taiwan) has been another x86 maker. It bought Centaur Technology (known for IDT WinChip), which was formerly owned by IDT, and separately Cyrix from National Semiconductor (Cyrix assets went to AMD).
Wikipedia has it, that VIA has discontinued its x86 line. IDT was eventually bought by Renesas (Japan), and Centaur was sold to Intel.
VIA's x86/x64 chips are now made in a joint venture with the Chinese company Zhaoxin, but I don't know if products with its chips are available in the West anywhere.
So there was a lot of market consolidation.
There's also DM&P (Taiwan). It makes Vortex86 x86 CPUs, which typically go to embedded manufacturers. Vortex86 is based on designs from Rise Technology, which was bought by SiS, and SiS sold the line to DM&P.
@bananab3813 Says:
Never Gets old grandpa! thanks for this informative video, i do believe that RISC-V will be the future especially for nations where it's prohibited from participating in a fair Computing race competition, this movement will ensure a more reasonable entrance even for hobbyists to design and run their own computers as opposed to being locked in by much bigger congolmerates
@ehsansheikh9731 Says:
☪☪☪☪
@AbhijitGangoly Says:
Thanks Christopher for this nice explanation video.
@Kerivity Says:
I wrote this comment on a risc-v framework 13 laptop!
@kamertonaudiophileplayer847 Says:
I just ordered OrangePi RV2 from Amazon. I will be available in Apr, so we all will waiting for a hands on review of this machine from this channel.
@DavidAlsh Says:
China has recently started investing a lot in RISCV. I've started building/distributing riscv64 binaries for my Github projects! (it's a little tricky to cross compile for unfortunately)
@hobbyelectronics2121 Says:
10:11 Accurate analysis. Now, the Chinese government is set to release a new policy guidance aimed at promoting the nationwide adoption of RISC-V architecture.
@miltonjimenez5771 Says:
Can you help me ? Iam looking to buy a tablet to install linux on it. It is possible to do ? Wich one do I have to buy? thanks
@longrolstral Says:
Thank you for the video.
Ah! Those magazines. The Atari 400 was my first computer. Got to love a membrane keyboard. Okay, perhaps not.
@radmanace Says:
👏👍🏆
@nighthawk12332 Says:
Hello, I'm currently in university for Computer Engineering and am taking a sequence of courses which builds a RISC-V MCU using Verilog and implementing it on a Basys3 board. What should I be thinking about when trying to find a successful job in this area? Does someone know what a day-to-day with this sort of job would look like?
@malcomflibbleghast8140 Says:
does one of your clones work for air traffic control in slovakia? the arm movements look awfully familiar....
@9a3eedi Says:
Isn't SPARC and MIPS also Open ISA and also RISC based? Why haven't those taken off? MIPS was popular for a while in the 90s and 2000s, and I believe it was adopted by China for their in-house designs. Interestingly, the SPARC architecture was selected by the european space agency for their space processor development because of its open architecture (check the LEON family from Gaisler). But apart from space, I haven't seen these architectures taking off like how RISC-V is right now. Why is that?
@eegles Says:
6:30 Compatibility, yes, and another related concept: standardization. Standardizing some parts of a complex system can make the system more efficient. One thing that might hold back RISC-V is that standardization on ISA, what you call monopolization, means innovation can happen in other parts of the computing system. And maybe that's more important than innovation in ISA. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
@Althea.Lytharis Says:
People like you should be in charge
@maaku.moreno Says:
I have 2 books on my desk for me to read. "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" and "Weaving The Web." I suspect that somewhere out there is another equally important book related to ISA development perhaps even written by the folks out of Berkeley. I have long known about RISC and early on believed it would eventually dominate. Perhaps the process of such thinking is too complicated for me to grasp, so a book related to such development might prove useful along side my other two books.
@Raptorman0909 Says:
I'd like to see how RISC-V might be optimized in a few different compute segments. First, a variant that is optimized for parallel processing with the goal of producing the highest processing power per watt as these types of computers burn through enormous amount of energy so improving the processing power per watt could make a huge difference in compute cost. Another segment would be storage servers designed to store vast amount of data, exabytes and more, using SSD's, and they also to burn through way too much energy. The third segment would be more of a general purpose processer that would be optimized for that task -- for laptops, desktop PC's, tablets and imbedded devices. Again, the goal being to reduce the power needed to provide a given level of performance.
@notoriouswillyb4390 Says:
Let's just say I would have preferred to learn RISC-V to MIPS in university for my CS/EE coursework. It would have standardized and modernized a lot of things and made my textbooks a lot cheaper!
@x3voo Says:
T2 Linux is compiled for RISC-V, you could try that instead
@staninjapan07 Says:
Always a great video to be enjoyed on this channel, thanks.
I had a funny thought.
I don't know whether it was funny "haha" or funny "ignorant and irrelevant".
RISC-V is taking off at a pace.
China (do not remember who) recently released some AI to rival the giants.
I wonder if someone could use (any) AI, the corporate product that much of it is, to accelerate the development of RISC-V to make it competitive with its corporate rivals even more quickly.
As a none tech' person, I am just daydreaming really.
@RockeyDAproductions Says:
awsome vid, gonna watch some more, might sub!
@Hopper-n5f Says:
Actually the competition between Intel and AMD is still very intense. Very soon, they will also be competing directly with ARM in the laptop market. For a processor to be successful, it needs software compatibility and a ton of investment. There is not much room for RISC-V to compete here but it may have a chance to be a niche player.
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