10 months ago

A new chip architecture called https://riscv.org/ is emerging as a hot-ticket item to unseat the dominant x86 processor in computer hardware, but it has a problem — it has poor software support. Linaro played a major role in expanding software support to make ARM a viable alternative to x86 for cloud-native applications. Today, RISC-V is where ARM was in 2010 — an emerging architecture with limited software support, but a legitimate threat to x86 and ARM.

On the software side, Google has announced Android support for RISC-V, and developed a new OS called KataOS or RISC-V architecture.

The chip supports Linux and MySQL and Apache web-serving software, which is similar to the early ARM chips running the https://thenewstack.io/keg-stack-replace-lamp-stack/.