• SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    11 days ago

    Essentially no processors follow a standard. There are some that have become a de facto standard and had both backwards compatibility and clones produced like x86. But it is certainly not an open standard, and many lawsuits have been filed to limit the ability of other companies to produce compatible replacement chips.

    RISC-V is an attempt to make an open instruction set that any manufacturer can make a compatible chip for, and any software developer can code for.