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Yes. We\u2019ve been here before. A second war of the architectures.<\/p>\n
In Hackers<\/em>, a group of RISC- obsessed teens must stop a goateed villain from capsizing a fleet of oil tankers with a computer virus. Pictured here, from left: Lord Nikon, Dade, Kate, and Cereal Killer.<\/p>\n<\/span>Photograph: Everett Collection<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nIt\u2019s hard to overstate just how topsy-freaking-turvy this gets. To review: Patterson invented RISC in 1980 and went to battle with the established ISAs. He won. Thirty years later, his disciples reinvent RISC for a new age, and he and they go to battle with the very company whose success secured RISC\u2019s legacy in the first place: Arm.<\/p>\nIn response to Patterson\u2019s paper, Arm fires back with a rebuttal, \u201cThe Case for Licensed Instruction Sets.\u201d Nobody wants some random, untested, unsupported ISA, they say. Customers want success, standards, a proven \u201cecosystem.\u201d The resources it would take to retool and reprogram everything for a new ISA? There\u2019s not enough cash in the world, Arm scoffs.<\/p>\nThe RISC-V community disagrees. They create their own ecosystem under the auspices of RISC-V International and begin adapting RISC-V to the needs of modern computing. Some supporters start calling it an \u201copen source hardware\u201d movement, even if hardcore RISC-Vers don\u2019t love the phrase. Hardware, being set in literal stone, can\u2019t exactly be \u201copen source,\u201d and besides, RISC-V doesn\u2019t count, entirely, as hardware. It\u2019s the hardware-software interface<\/em>, remember. But, semantics. The point stands: Anyone, in any bedroom or garage or office in any part of the world, can use RISC-V for free to build their own computers from scratch, to chart their own technological destiny.<\/p>\nArm is right about one thing, though: This does take money. Millions if not billions of dollars. (If you think \u201cfabless\u201d chip printers can do it for closer to five figures, come back to me in five years.) Still, RISC-V begins to win. Much as Arm, in the 1990s and 2000s, found success in low-end markets, so too, in the 2010s, does RISC-V: special-purpose gadgets, computer chips in automobiles, that sort of thing. Why pay for Intel chips or Arm licenses when you don\u2019t have to?<\/p>\nAnd the guys at Berkeley? In 2015, they launch their own company, called SiFive<\/a>, to build computer parts based on RISC-V. Meaning: Arm isn\u2019t just a spiritual enemy for them now. It\u2019s a direct competitor.<\/p>\n\n<\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nBy the time<\/span> I went to that \u201cvery technical conference\u201d in Santa Clara, the Arm-vs.-RISC-V war had been raging for nearly a decade. I could still feel it everywhere. We\u2019ve won<\/em>, I heard several times. Nobody\u2019s happy at Arm<\/em>, someone claimed. 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<\/span>Photograph: Everett Collection<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nIt\u2019s hard to overstate just how topsy-freaking-turvy this gets. To review: Patterson invented RISC in 1980 and went to battle with the established ISAs. He won. Thirty years later, his disciples reinvent RISC for a new age, and he and they go to battle with the very company whose success secured RISC\u2019s legacy in the first place: Arm.<\/p>\nIn response to Patterson\u2019s paper, Arm fires back with a rebuttal, \u201cThe Case for Licensed Instruction Sets.\u201d Nobody wants some random, untested, unsupported ISA, they say. Customers want success, standards, a proven \u201cecosystem.\u201d The resources it would take to retool and reprogram everything for a new ISA? There\u2019s not enough cash in the world, Arm scoffs.<\/p>\nThe RISC-V community disagrees. They create their own ecosystem under the auspices of RISC-V International and begin adapting RISC-V to the needs of modern computing. Some supporters start calling it an \u201copen source hardware\u201d movement, even if hardcore RISC-Vers don\u2019t love the phrase. Hardware, being set in literal stone, can\u2019t exactly be \u201copen source,\u201d and besides, RISC-V doesn\u2019t count, entirely, as hardware. It\u2019s the hardware-software interface<\/em>, remember. But, semantics. The point stands: Anyone, in any bedroom or garage or office in any part of the world, can use RISC-V for free to build their own computers from scratch, to chart their own technological destiny.<\/p>\nArm is right about one thing, though: This does take money. Millions if not billions of dollars. (If you think \u201cfabless\u201d chip printers can do it for closer to five figures, come back to me in five years.) Still, RISC-V begins to win. Much as Arm, in the 1990s and 2000s, found success in low-end markets, so too, in the 2010s, does RISC-V: special-purpose gadgets, computer chips in automobiles, that sort of thing. Why pay for Intel chips or Arm licenses when you don\u2019t have to?<\/p>\nAnd the guys at Berkeley? In 2015, they launch their own company, called SiFive<\/a>, to build computer parts based on RISC-V. Meaning: Arm isn\u2019t just a spiritual enemy for them now. It\u2019s a direct competitor.<\/p>\n\n<\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nBy the time<\/span> I went to that \u201cvery technical conference\u201d in Santa Clara, the Arm-vs.-RISC-V war had been raging for nearly a decade. I could still feel it everywhere. We\u2019ve won<\/em>, I heard several times. Nobody\u2019s happy at Arm<\/em>, someone claimed. (One longtime higher-up at Arm, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal affairs, disputed \u201cnobody\u201d but admitted there\u2019s been a \u201cculture change\u201d in recent years.) 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It\u2019s hard to overstate just how topsy-freaking-turvy this gets. To review: Patterson invented RISC in 1980 and went to battle with the established ISAs. He won. Thirty years later, his disciples reinvent RISC for a new age, and he and they go to battle with the very company whose success secured RISC\u2019s legacy in the first place: Arm.<\/p>\n
In response to Patterson\u2019s paper, Arm fires back with a rebuttal, \u201cThe Case for Licensed Instruction Sets.\u201d Nobody wants some random, untested, unsupported ISA, they say. Customers want success, standards, a proven \u201cecosystem.\u201d The resources it would take to retool and reprogram everything for a new ISA? There\u2019s not enough cash in the world, Arm scoffs.<\/p>\n
The RISC-V community disagrees. They create their own ecosystem under the auspices of RISC-V International and begin adapting RISC-V to the needs of modern computing. Some supporters start calling it an \u201copen source hardware\u201d movement, even if hardcore RISC-Vers don\u2019t love the phrase. Hardware, being set in literal stone, can\u2019t exactly be \u201copen source,\u201d and besides, RISC-V doesn\u2019t count, entirely, as hardware. It\u2019s the hardware-software interface<\/em>, remember. But, semantics. The point stands: Anyone, in any bedroom or garage or office in any part of the world, can use RISC-V for free to build their own computers from scratch, to chart their own technological destiny.<\/p>\nArm is right about one thing, though: This does take money. Millions if not billions of dollars. (If you think \u201cfabless\u201d chip printers can do it for closer to five figures, come back to me in five years.) Still, RISC-V begins to win. Much as Arm, in the 1990s and 2000s, found success in low-end markets, so too, in the 2010s, does RISC-V: special-purpose gadgets, computer chips in automobiles, that sort of thing. Why pay for Intel chips or Arm licenses when you don\u2019t have to?<\/p>\nAnd the guys at Berkeley? In 2015, they launch their own company, called SiFive<\/a>, to build computer parts based on RISC-V. Meaning: Arm isn\u2019t just a spiritual enemy for them now. It\u2019s a direct competitor.<\/p>\n\n<\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nBy the time<\/span> I went to that \u201cvery technical conference\u201d in Santa Clara, the Arm-vs.-RISC-V war had been raging for nearly a decade. I could still feel it everywhere. We\u2019ve won<\/em>, I heard several times. Nobody\u2019s happy at Arm<\/em>, someone claimed. (One longtime higher-up at Arm, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal affairs, disputed \u201cnobody\u201d but admitted there\u2019s been a \u201cculture change\u201d in recent years.) On the second day of the conference, when news broke of a rift between Arm and one of its biggest customers, Qualcomm, people cheered in the hallways. \u201cArm is assholes,\u201d a former SiFive exec told me. In fact, only one person at the conference seemed to have anything nice to say about the competition. He was working a demo booth, and when I marveled that his product was built on a RISC-V processor, he turned a little green and whispered: \u201cActually, it\u2019s Arm. Don\u2019t tell anyone. Please don\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d<\/p>\nBooth bro was probably worrying too much. In the hardware world, everyone has worked, or has friends, everywhere else. Calista Redmond, the star of the show, spent 12 years at IBM (and recently resigned from RISC-V International for a job at Nvidia). Even Patterson has ties to, of all places, Intel\u2014which, though less of a direct threat to Arm, is still a RISC-V competitor. It was Intel grant money, Patterson happily admits, that paid for the Berkeley architects to invent RISC-V in the first place. Without closed source, proprietary Big Tech, there\u2019s no open source, free-for-all Little Tech. Don\u2019t listen to the techno-hippies who claim otherwise; that\u2019s always been the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes. We\u2019ve been here before. A second war of the architectures. In Hackers, a group of RISC- obsessed teens must stop a goateed villain from capsizing a fleet of oil tankers with a computer virus. Pictured here, from left: Lord Nikon, Dade, Kate, and Cereal Killer. 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Arm is right about one thing, though: This does take money. Millions if not billions of dollars. (If you think \u201cfabless\u201d chip printers can do it for closer to five figures, come back to me in five years.) Still, RISC-V begins to win. Much as Arm, in the 1990s and 2000s, found success in low-end markets, so too, in the 2010s, does RISC-V: special-purpose gadgets, computer chips in automobiles, that sort of thing. Why pay for Intel chips or Arm licenses when you don\u2019t have to?<\/p>\n
And the guys at Berkeley? In 2015, they launch their own company, called SiFive<\/a>, to build computer parts based on RISC-V. Meaning: Arm isn\u2019t just a spiritual enemy for them now. It\u2019s a direct competitor.<\/p>\n\n<\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nBy the time<\/span> I went to that \u201cvery technical conference\u201d in Santa Clara, the Arm-vs.-RISC-V war had been raging for nearly a decade. I could still feel it everywhere. We\u2019ve won<\/em>, I heard several times. Nobody\u2019s happy at Arm<\/em>, someone claimed. (One longtime higher-up at Arm, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal affairs, disputed \u201cnobody\u201d but admitted there\u2019s been a \u201cculture change\u201d in recent years.) On the second day of the conference, when news broke of a rift between Arm and one of its biggest customers, Qualcomm, people cheered in the hallways. \u201cArm is assholes,\u201d a former SiFive exec told me. In fact, only one person at the conference seemed to have anything nice to say about the competition. He was working a demo booth, and when I marveled that his product was built on a RISC-V processor, he turned a little green and whispered: \u201cActually, it\u2019s Arm. Don\u2019t tell anyone. Please don\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d<\/p>\nBooth bro was probably worrying too much. In the hardware world, everyone has worked, or has friends, everywhere else. Calista Redmond, the star of the show, spent 12 years at IBM (and recently resigned from RISC-V International for a job at Nvidia). Even Patterson has ties to, of all places, Intel\u2014which, though less of a direct threat to Arm, is still a RISC-V competitor. It was Intel grant money, Patterson happily admits, that paid for the Berkeley architects to invent RISC-V in the first place. Without closed source, proprietary Big Tech, there\u2019s no open source, free-for-all Little Tech. 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By the time<\/span> I went to that \u201cvery technical conference\u201d in Santa Clara, the Arm-vs.-RISC-V war had been raging for nearly a decade. I could still feel it everywhere. We\u2019ve won<\/em>, I heard several times. Nobody\u2019s happy at Arm<\/em>, someone claimed. (One longtime higher-up at Arm, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal affairs, disputed \u201cnobody\u201d but admitted there\u2019s been a \u201cculture change\u201d in recent years.) On the second day of the conference, when news broke of a rift between Arm and one of its biggest customers, Qualcomm, people cheered in the hallways. \u201cArm is assholes,\u201d a former SiFive exec told me. In fact, only one person at the conference seemed to have anything nice to say about the competition. He was working a demo booth, and when I marveled that his product was built on a RISC-V processor, he turned a little green and whispered: \u201cActually, it\u2019s Arm. Don\u2019t tell anyone. Please don\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d<\/p>\nBooth bro was probably worrying too much. In the hardware world, everyone has worked, or has friends, everywhere else. Calista Redmond, the star of the show, spent 12 years at IBM (and recently resigned from RISC-V International for a job at Nvidia). Even Patterson has ties to, of all places, Intel\u2014which, though less of a direct threat to Arm, is still a RISC-V competitor. It was Intel grant money, Patterson happily admits, that paid for the Berkeley architects to invent RISC-V in the first place. Without closed source, proprietary Big Tech, there\u2019s no open source, free-for-all Little Tech. Don\u2019t listen to the techno-hippies who claim otherwise; that\u2019s always been the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes. We\u2019ve been here before. A second war of the architectures. 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Booth bro was probably worrying too much. In the hardware world, everyone has worked, or has friends, everywhere else. Calista Redmond, the star of the show, spent 12 years at IBM (and recently resigned from RISC-V International for a job at Nvidia). Even Patterson has ties to, of all places, Intel\u2014which, though less of a direct threat to Arm, is still a RISC-V competitor. It was Intel grant money, Patterson happily admits, that paid for the Berkeley architects to invent RISC-V in the first place. Without closed source, proprietary Big Tech, there\u2019s no open source, free-for-all Little Tech. Don\u2019t listen to the techno-hippies who claim otherwise; that\u2019s always been the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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