At a technical level it’s still young and most likely not as powerful as other similar platforms, but on a legal level the instruction set is an open standard and royaltee-free, so it can’t be embargoed through licensing like ARM or other instruction sets.
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At a technical level it’s still young and most likely not as powerful as other similar platforms, but on a legal level the instruction set is an open standard and royaltee-free, so it can’t be embargoed through licensing like ARM or other instruction sets.
I’m happy to see more openness in hardware.
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No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.
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It’s neither. It’s a specification that you can use to build your own chip.
So it’s more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.
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How can you have a preference if you don’t understand?
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Closed source but if you pay enough you can get the source