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Comment by misiek08 | Hacker News Reader

I think „scary” is the best word. If of course rumor about choosing RISC-V over ARM is true! We just saw big win of ARM over Intel's multi-decade scam and yet here we are with another split from ARM, because of politics. Scary to see how stupid, talking people, convincing other people to hate without real reasons can lead to such stories…

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> We just saw big win of ARM over Intel's multi-decade scam

We also just saw Arm sue one of their customers following an acquisition of another of Arm's customers, and try to make them destroy IP that was covered by both customers' licenses. Nobody wants to deal with licensing, and when the licensor is that aggressive it makes open alternatives all the more compelling, even if they're not technically on-par.

RISC-V is open source. Everyone wins when we switch from Arm to RISC-V. Well, everyone except Arm.

I'm less convinced the RISC-V move is about politics and more convinced it's about not paying for ARM licenses.

Arm is Softbank.

And Softbank is all in on Team USA.

At least in the USA, Europe. Remember ARM China going rouge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329731

But they don't have access to new designs and no way to add new architecture extensions that could be widely adopted.

China is already red.

I don't see how they went rouge? https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/arm-lays-off-70-s...

Arm is still in control. Some went to form another company however.

softbank is usually the dumb money on the poker table, funding bad ideas long after anyone intelligent leaves them. wework is probably the best example.

getting funded by softbank is probably a good proxy indicator for companies losing their competitive edge.

Arm the company is based in the UK and thr UK wants to rejoin the EU. I don't think you should be so sure about that.

RISC-V is open source.

Stop being so squareand embrace the future maaaaann.

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