You guys think RISC will ever get there?
As someone who owns several RISC-V devices the primary thing preventing usable (low end) RISC-V laptops is the GPUs. Most RISC-V silicon has Imagination GPUs, and the current state of the drivers there is “proprietary drivers stuck on an old LTS kernel.”
If someone makes an RVA23 compliant chip with open mainstreamable drivers and a BXS-4-64 GPU (or, better yet, somehow manages to license a GPU from Intel or AMD for it), that’ll be a cash cow.
And should make a chip. Risc V with their GPU.
Mainly a question of money.
“Less suitable […] than expected” is kinda terrifying given expectations must’ve been pretty low in the 1st place knowing their history with linux…
But I heard it was so fast!
Who the heck designs a laptop with an ARM core? Nothing against ARM, they are my bread and butter on the job. But whatever you do, choose the right tools for the right job.
There’s nothing wrong with ARM. Qualcomm, on the other hand . . .
The X1 elite is perfectly fine for most people performance wise and as much as I hate Qualcomm, we need the competition.
But yea, support for this is arriving to the market too late to matter.
