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> It’s a tradeoff: With RISC-V you get innovation, you can create new extensions, but you lost software compatibility. And more importantly, you lose the guarantee of software compatibility,” he said. Arm’s founders made “that a key tenet, and that will serve us well going forward. I’m confident of that.”

How long does it take until we have server-side Ubuntu Linux and staple applications like PostgreSQL humming nicely on RISC-V? It does not matter if RISC-V has less ported software today, as long as there is clear roadmap when this advantage of ARM will be gone.

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