I had read that MIPS has pretty much abandoned its ISA in favor of RISC-V. Not a major deal, since only 2 instructions were different. Also, in addition to OpenSparc and OpenPower, ARM itself is "open" in the sense that it can be licensed, after a company pays an upfront membership fee (According to Steve Furber, it was to keep ARM from going into the red).. I daresay one could even do what Cyrix and Centaur, in addition to AMD, used to do in the 90s w/o running afoul of either Intel or AMD ISA patents

How?

...the Tenth Amendment, IANAL, but sure looks this way

The extra work needed can be offloaded to AI, so the few people who are there can live the way they always did

They'll have plenty of opportunities elsewhere in the continent - Spain, France, Germany, Britain and beyond

Currently, there are 32, 64 and 128 bit versions. Would they need a 16 bit version for really low end, embedded applications?

In fact, MIPS has pretty much gone wholly w/ the RISC-V architecture for all future designs and implementations. I looked, and only 2 instructions are different b/w MIPS and RISC-V

RISC-V is under an MIT license, not GPL. Nobody has to make designs "free" after improving and optimizing the base designs

Yeah, I'd think that Australian kids will end up better off as a result

Or for that matter, before Social Media existed

I suspect it'll work like TPM, which has its own channels to connect home, w/o using your internet connection. That way, it goes undetected by your firewalls, or any of the regular utilities on your computer

I recall when Apple acquired PA-Semi, which at the time was a designer of PowerPC based CPUs. Obviously that changed once they were in Apple, and started turning out ARM CPUs

I wonder if the same thing will happen w/ Qualcomm, which has its ARM chip Snapdragon. Will they repurpose Ventana to design ARM CPUs instead, or is this their way of entering the RISC-V market? If it's the latter, it would be good for RISC-V. I'd like to see some of the heavy hitters in the semiconductor industry - Qualcomm, NVIDIA and others come up w/ their own RISC-V implementations. Don't like the architecture duopoly of x86/64 and ARM (even though the latter has several implementations) and would like to see MIPS make a comeback via RISC-V

Fakebook definitely is still woke. Just look at who are the people who participate on Threads, and even on Fakebook itself. It may be a little to the right of BlueSky, but not much

In your example, the company in question would manufacture in all 3 countries to avoid tariffs. Then only export/import if there are supply/demand differences b/w the various countries

Datacenters need power at the scale of nuclear power: that's why Microsoft bought the Three Mile Island plant, and have it operating to serve power to their datacenters. Solar power won't do a thing

Also, Satya Nadella is an American citizen, as is Sundar Pichai and several other Indian CEOs. If only India could stop being socialist and less bureaucratic, they would have been movers & shakers in the Indian economy, w/o involving US