Comment on RISC-V Guns for Raspberry Pi, Legacy ChipsComments−ncmncm4yIs there an objective reason to prefer RISC-V over some POWERx generation?If you were designing a chip to go into a high-end-ish product, would basing it on POWER cause you any greater difficulty than RISC-V?−classichasclass4yThe required number of instructions to implement for basic Linux support is rather larger on Power ISA than RISC-V. But you'd have currently better software support as a result, so it may be a wash depending on where your development effort goes.
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Is there an objective reason to prefer RISC-V over some POWERx generation?
If you were designing a chip to go into a high-end-ish product, would basing it on POWER cause you any greater difficulty than RISC-V?
The required number of instructions to implement for basic Linux support is rather larger on Power ISA than RISC-V. But you'd have currently better software support as a result, so it may be a wash depending on where your development effort goes.