On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
The octa core SoCs available right now are rather terrible when it comes to heat and power management
yyeah, that's no surprise. what's really nice about RISC-V btw is that it's something mad like a 40% performance-watt improvement over ARM in the same geometry.
( like the kirn 960) and we are rather limited by the fact that everything has to run on libre software
well, there are plenty of companies that _don't_ (so it makes no sense to copy them or compete with them).... and the burden is enormous on absolutely everybody. yet nobody's even *tried* an entirely libre approach *despite clearly knowing the advantages*!
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Intel-and-Valve-collaborate-to-develo...
l.