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As someone out of the loop on modern RISC, what is the benefit of RISC versus x86/64?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The specific benefit of RISC-V vs other architectures is that it is open source, so can be used without having to pay a fee to the company that owns it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

Ah, open source - that's an advantage for sure, thank you.

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