The Father Of Arm And Risc-v Openly Tearing Gnome Accusations Of Arm

We have previously reported that "the ARM authorization cost is too expensive and the technology giant wants to turn to the open source architecture RISC-V". Compared with ARM, the open source RISC-V instruction set can be freely used for any purpose, allowing anyone to design, manufacture and sell RISC-V chips and software, and so RISC-V is on the embedded platform. More and more companies are paying attention, including Google, Tesla, Samsung, Qualcomm and other technology companies have joined the RISC-V camp.

Perhaps because this trend has made ARM feel pressure, ARM set up a web site with a domain name at the end of June, with the theme "five things to consider before designing a system chip", attacking RISC-V from cost, ecosystem, fragmentation risk, security, and design assurance.

The move naturally caused RISC-V's strong dissatisfaction. In July 9th, RISC-V also built a web site with a domain name, arm-basics.com, and used "six things to think about before the design of the system chip" (five new community support on the ARM list), counterattacked ARM, and called on vendors to use real free shelves. Construct RISC-V.

In this case, Miguel de Icaza, the father of GNOME, said on twitter that "ARM's negative publicity for RISC-V is only counterproductive, and the views they put forward are a little weak."

In July 10th, ARM's riscv-basics.com website was downloaded. The Arm spokesman said in a foreign media interview that their initial aim was to create a web page to list the key factors to be considered for the commercial products around RISC-V, and to provide information for the intense industry debate. Unfortunately, the result is somewhat unexpected. The page also does not conform to Arm's cooperation culture, so it's offline.

The spokesman also stressed: "we absolutely do not want to give everyone an attack on open source, because we are a high supporter of many open source communities in many different fields. Our goal is to do some healthy industry discussions, because this is very important for the future of this industry.