Readit NewsTo be clear, LLM is not real "AI", not sustainable, and already losing money with every new user.
An imperfect mirror shows only the irrational what they wish to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftBiNu0ZNU
I look forward to likely having a cluster of heavily discounted GPUs in a few years. =3
However, it was a "standard" boot-loader, had consistent documentation, and a wide community of users. It encouraged people of all skill levels to play with chips, and that was great.
These days a full Linux SoC is often cheaper than most mcu. The age of the Arduino board will just end a little quicker now. Generally, irritating a planet of bored computer engineers does not end well for a business. =3
Also, assembling the PCB for some custom 1U rack hardware. Added a pi5 header to the debug PCB for automated component testing.
Restructuring fabrication options for several hardware components due to trade issues. =3
"So long and Thanks for all the Fish" ( Douglas Adams )
There is no X280 hardware available yet for general purchase. There is the HiFive Xara X280 announced in May, but that is believed to be available to SiFive licensees only. The SG2380 was going to have X280s as an NPU alongside P670 main cores, but that's been cancelled as a result of US sanctions on Sophgo. The PIC64-HSPC is a rad-hard chip using the X280 for NASA and other space customers, but will not be cheap -- the RAD750 PowerPC chip it is replacing reportedly costs $200,000 each.
Regulatory capture is something people need to take seriously. Some may shelve product IP for a few years, or set-up parallel factories in other countries without the artificial trade/global-talent barriers.
A standard doesn't have to be perfect, but must be consistent over significant periods of time to matter. Consider what happened to OpenSparc, Cell, IA-64, dojo tiles, and early RISC (Windows NT prototype was ported off by Microsoft.)
The NVIDIA CUDA card kludge wasn't necessarily "better" than something like the M3/M4/M5 at every task. But was economical hardware due to volume pricing, has 92% of the ecosystem, and most software already worked given it isn't walled-off.
Note people tend to avoid buying work, or porting to short-lived hardware. Best of luck, =3
No one is ever going to design an ISA that is complete and finished forever on Day #1. There are always going to be new data types and new algorithms to support e.g. the current rush to add "AI" support to all ISAs (NPUs, TPUs, whatever you want to call them).
Arm has ARMv9-A following on from ARMv8-A, and they are already up to Armv9.7-A in addition to as many ARMv8-A enhancements.
Intel/AMD have all kinds of add-ons to x86_64, and not even linear e.g. the here now gone now AVX512. Finally here to stay (presumably) in x86-64-v4. And there is already APX and AVX10 to add to that.
There were many great chips that never survived in consumer product spaces. When manufacturers tell chip houses there is a permutation compatibility risk issue, and people take a petulant stance on the feedback... “Not my circus, not my monkeys” as they say.
1. Intel is kept alive by the promise of an integrated NVIDIA RTX SoC.
2. AMD understood something important about the software market, and that was easy backward-compatibility wins over _every_ other feature. Even Intel had to learn this the hard way.
3. 93% of the market is change sensitive... anyone that assumes cross-compiling is on the queue for that sector is greatly mistaken. Note, it took ARM over a decade driven by Googles dominance with mobile to gain traction.
4. Most software libraries will only enable advanced chip features if hardware is detected, and most compiled code simply uses the compatibility subset of compiled features (sure its 3 times slower, but it works everywhere.) No one is going to go through every permutation of an ISA with vendor specific features. The NERF'd subset of features in most Aarch64 and amd64 packages should be enough indication software people won't give a bean about unstable vanity silicon features.
We shall see how RISC-Y plays out in the market. Old Yeller sure looks nervous. =3
Pretty much everything coming out in 2026 -- including Ventana's Veyron V2 -- is RVA23.
One profile to rule them all.
Currently-shipping applications processors are either RVA20 (plus the B extension in practice) or RVA22 with V as a standard option.
That's not fragmentation, it's just a standard linear progression. Each thing can run all the software from the previous thing:
RVA20 (what e.g. Ubuntu 25.04 and earlier require)
-> RVA20 + B
-> RVA22
-> RVA22 + V
-> RVA23 (what Ubuntu 25.10 and later require)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Even most ARM software compilers still cripple the advanced vendor specific asic features simply for stability mitigation. ARM 8/9 was actually a much leaner design. Cheers =3
Just say what you mean already. It’s not somehow better discussion when you hide your point behind layers of misdirection.
It is essentially a judges forced death-sentence for a corporation.
An appropriate solution given Roblox manipulative behavior targeting kids, and a pattern of administrative negligence on the platform. Spend 5 minutes searching, and the history of the platform "problems" is trivially exposed.
Kids <16 should not be on there unsupervised, and there are lots of other better-quality games around people can play that offer far less "problems". =3
I refuse to explain that to you, as you are likely still a kid. =3
GTFO, no kid under 16 should be on that platform unsupervised.
The feds should have section 7 that firm years ago. =3
What's eating Arduino's lunch is the various mcus: risc v, stm32, esp32 etc...
RTLinux or FreeRTOS are guaranteed-latency OS, that can reduce timing jitter.
"Real-time" is another term hijacked by people that think it means the same thing. It was a disservice to students, but thankfully FPGA or Raspberry Pico io DMA with mcu parallelism can teach people to understand clock domain crossing.
Part of the Arduino appeal, was convincing people the mcu and application SoC problem domains were the same. They are not, and never were... Hence the new Arduino board dual chip layout is twice as bad in some ways. Cheers =3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
risc v -- a new hope, but 20 years too late
stm32 -- a solid competitor to Microchip/AVR, but 14 years too late
esp32 -- FreeRTOS with hardware flash paging can pose an issue, but at least it already doesn't need Arduino software lol