DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux - Liliputing

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DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux - Liliputing
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Obligatory reading: "RISC-V is not an "open-source processor"". I was, like most others, under the impression that RISC-V was an open source CPU. So, this is an important distinction.

Wait, so the RISC-V instruction set is open source, but the implementations of these (aka the actual CPUs) may or may not be opensource at discretion of the manufacturers/vendors?

Yep. But even a closed-source CPU is good if it makes the architecture more mainstream.

Yeah, that's what I understood as well. As in, the ISA is the code, and the CPU is the binary.