> A previous project, open core 32, was a vibrant open-source hardware group in Europe. But what they made open was an implementation of a processor. With RISC-V, what is open is the instruction set, and you can use that to implement anything from the smallest IoT device to server-class processors.
So open core 32 was an open implementation, RISC-V is an open idea. Sometimes an idea travels farther, faster, if it doesn't have an implementation. And the implementations that do exist, have a huge population of creators (rapid fans) to assist in its spread and usage. Brilliant. RISC-V isn't the Linux of hardware, it is the Unix.
So open core 32 was an open implementation, RISC-V is an open idea. Sometimes an idea travels farther, faster, if it doesn't have an implementation. And the implementations that do exist, have a huge population of creators (rapid fans) to assist in its spread and usage. Brilliant. RISC-V isn't the Linux of hardware, it is the Unix.