Isn't there a Chinese company producing the chips even though the spec wasn't fully complete or something? i thought it read something like that a number of months ago

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 2 points 18 hours ago

Something like that. Most of it's over my head

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The ISA was published 11 years ago and many companies have been shipping hardware for years now; you can even get a RISC-V mainboard for a Framework laptop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#End-user_hardware

Unfortunately the performance is more comparable to a raspberry pi than a modern x86 PC; the faster ones are still coming soon.

You can follow RISC-V developments here on lemmy at !riscv@lemmy.ml btw

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

hey, that's good info, thank you

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 7 points 23 hours ago

I would like to add that "faster ones" did exist but were really really limited edition. And also full of backdoors making them not feasible to host a pubnix on. Was reading 9front IRC logs out of boredom once and someone mentioned a maintainer being given a server of sorts then someone replied "ah yes, Plan 9 on unobtanium v".

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Sooooooo Winblows on Tegra? How original. I hope the Linux and BSD nerds port their shit as soon as it releases. Although nouveau is gonna be painful...