It was a legit website - here's Arm's admission and explanation of intent.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/
They sure did the RISC-V community a great service over the last 48 hours ....
ARM: “RISC-V Architecture: Understand the Facts”
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#122It was a legit website - here's Arm's admission and explanation after they took down the site today:
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Besides the ones already noted, Qualcomm and others who make SoCs with custom CPU design (rather than using ARM Cortex) are paying ARM tax just to use the ISA. I imagine RISC-V is attractive to them. A lot of these SoCs become the core of smartphones. Did I mention Google (of Android fame) is also a member?
Sure, I'm just arguing that these should be seen more as strategic investments than as sign that these companies are about to roll out RISC-V chips right now, like GP implied.
WD and NVIDIA have stated outright that they're going to ship them at a volume soon.