No worries boss 🫡

Best thing about this is that it would be an awesome proof of concept for all kinds of third party boards for the framework formfactor. I wanna see Alibaba knock-off motherboards turned into laptops !

So people get much use from these dual-arch controllers? There’s a few out there already, but it seems unnecessarily clunky to have two architectures on the same board unless you’re building and testing the hardware on the same system.

It’s nice that they added it, but seems like it just adds complexity for most cases, no?

For comparison, the same GPU supposedly hits about 60fps with an i7 4700k with the next gen update (according to TH comments which could be bollocks of course.

China at a geopolitical level is very interested in RISCV, namely because it has a long term promise of independence from a technology controlled by US-aligned companies.

Ever since the increasing US embargoes on Chinese GPU imports and other semiconductor tech, there’s been a quiet -but-global search for potential technologies that aren’t subject to volatile international relations.

If you’re trying to build an indigenous tech industry right now your choices are:

• X86 - impossible to license and expensive if you can. At the mercy of Intel/AMD and the geopolitics of the US.
• ARM - expensive (less than x86) to license. At the mercy of ARM holdings and the geopolitics of the UK.
• DIY arch - Free to license, but requires way more work to maintain a software ecosystem without guarantees that you’ll even compete.
• RISCV - Free to license, and has some existing proof of performance and software availability. You also get the benefits of improvements to the ISA and software support compared to DIY ISAs.

Of course we’ve seen a bunch of all 4 in some ways over the recent years. China has done pretty much all 4 in some respects but their RISCV work is developing at an impressive pace right now.

True, though for most game/graphics developers you’re never interfacing directly with the graphics API, you’ll let your chosen engine/library do the heavy lifting.

It does have the downsides of increasing the barrier to entry for custom/bespoke engines but those edge cases seem to be covered well by DXVK.