I don't know that it will fundamentally reshape compute as strongly as the Internet reshaped communications, but RISC-V is such an appealing platform. It's so powerful given power demands and cost.
The question was "have a massive impact", which is not quite the same thing as "fundamental".
Though being the Last ISA would be pretty fundamental.
Unless they are really really bad, ISAs don't die because their design got old. x86 has proven that, over and over. As has been observed by a number of people, the only flaw that is really fatal is not having enough address bits. RISC-V is probably the only 64 bit ISA today with a built in plan for 128 bits.
The main reason ISAs die is because they are proprietary and have only one vendor that goes out of business, decides to concentrate on something else, gets too greedy, misses the Next Big Thing etc.
Same with Un*x's, actually.
Something owned by no one and everyone avoids all that, as long as it gains initial traction and has a governing person/body that keeps things sensible but can be bypassed/forked later if needed.
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I don't know that it will fundamentally reshape compute as strongly as the Internet reshaped communications, but RISC-V is such an appealing platform. It's so powerful given power demands and cost.
The question was "have a massive impact", which is not quite the same thing as "fundamental".
Though being the Last ISA would be pretty fundamental.
Unless they are really really bad, ISAs don't die because their design got old. x86 has proven that, over and over. As has been observed by a number of people, the only flaw that is really fatal is not having enough address bits. RISC-V is probably the only 64 bit ISA today with a built in plan for 128 bits.
The main reason ISAs die is because they are proprietary and have only one vendor that goes out of business, decides to concentrate on something else, gets too greedy, misses the Next Big Thing etc.
Same with Un*x's, actually.
Something owned by no one and everyone avoids all that, as long as it gains initial traction and has a governing person/body that keeps things sensible but can be bypassed/forked later if needed.