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by Narishma 1519 days ago
> I'd like an open source CPU in my next phone please!

Just because it's RISC-V doesn't mean the CPU is open source.

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Not all RISC-V ends up open, but it has better odds than anything else.
AliBaba has been open sourcing their designs though. AFAIK, this work is mainly against their XuanTie C910 cores that have the source published here: https://github.com/T-head-Semi/openc910
Yeah. It's not licensed under the GPL or anything like that. I'm not sure it's as good as people seem to think.