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      Which also had the effect on pushing RISC-V development forward, which is great.

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          At a technical level it’s still young and most likely not as powerful as other similar platforms, but on a legal level the instruction set is an open standard and royaltee-free, so it can’t be embargoed through licensing like ARM or other instruction sets.

          I’m happy to see more openness in hardware.

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              No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

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                  It’s neither. It’s a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

                  So it’s more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.