Recent content by 3arn0wl

Hehe I wonder if this headline is meant to rebuff stats emerging about RISC-V sales? Alibaba's T-Head have sold over 2.5billion APU-level open source RISC-V XuanTie chips Andes Technology, by the end of last year, had sold 8billion and SiFive another couple of billion. (And there are lots of...

There are a number of possible reasons for this job ad: Firstly - it's a low-key geopolitical (anti-neoliberal) message implying that Apple isn't keen on Nvidia's acquisition of Arm. Given Nvidia's track record, none of the big tech companies who are reliant on ARM, trust Nvidia to be in...

RISC-V was developed as an Open Source ISA, so that computer engineering students could design and build processors without worrying about infringing intellectual property. It's only within the last couple of years that CPU designs have been powerful enough to run lightweight versions of...

As I understand it, Ubuntu "touch" (that term will disappear soon enough) is using core and snappy - that's what Canonical realised they had to develop to ensure everything remains secure. And yes, touch is still in development, though it now seems to be evolving at quite a pace. Hopefully, the...

Isn't the point that the code is converging to a core and snappy system: the code for the phone will be the same as IoT, desktop, etc..

There seems to be a problem with the Audio on the video - at least for me.

Great specs! I hope this happens - Ubuntu deserves to be widely available.