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by threshold 1740 days ago
RISC-V’s success won’t benefit the end user, only spare designers a licensing fee they can well afford. After recompiling everyone’s software and dividing a huge unified ecosystem the end result will be some political victory with no material value.
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Isn't there some chance someone will manufacture laptops that people can have 100% confidence don't contain hardware-level backdoors?