If Keller gets to manage the RISC-V development team for 2 years, the startup’s version of RISC-V is going to come a long way in a short time. I want RISC-V to overtake ARM in all mobile and single board systems but I know that it can’t replace x86.
I really hope it does replace x86 tho. I stopped buying processors when I upgraded from a 3rd gen i5 to the ryzen 5 2600 and I feel almost zero improvement. The only time improvement is noticeable is when I’m compiling software. Like games run slightly better and some games wouldn’t launch at all because the i5 didn’t support something but in everyday use and in games it just doesn’t feel like an improvement. And now I just see intel chips failing and yesterday I just saw an article that AMD chips were failing.
X86 just needs to die because they’ve either pushed it too far or the engineers working on it now don’t know how to work on it like they used to
Given how successful the designs Keller has been on are, this kind of news adds expectations. In 3-5 years time, of course, but even so.
