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by floatboth 2403 days ago
Which is great if you're going to design your own high-performance CPU core, which uhhhh very few organizations in the world are capable of.

If you're a downstream consumer, especially so far downstream that you're just buying a pre-made chip and putting it onto a board like System76 would, the ISA royalty means very little to you.