This is the biggest news for the open source community, a truly

This hasn't been news for years. We've been working on this for awhile now anon. Also custom instruction-set processors aren't new. You can literally go to any CAD vendor and they'll have their own complete tool-kit that generates a compiler, RTL, synthesis constraints etc. in accordance to any ISA you design. I've tried a few. The only reason the industry is spending time and money (and not much at that mind you, if you actually dig into the status of the various components of RISC-V its only now starting to get any real development momentum, srsly wtf is Chisel) is that it allows them to develop SoCs and other chips without paying licensing fees.

Anyways.

>>61132103
I forgot to point out you obviously have to spec the micro-architecture, not just the ISA, to get the hardware implementation generated by those tools

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>>61132000
>128-bit Instruction Set
I can finally use more than 16 exibytes of RAM

>>61132132
Must give the academicians with huge calculations to make a hardon

>>61132000
But can it run Crysis

>>61132000
Free in what sense? Dollars to doughnuts its a BSD-type license due to how many companies are supporting it and going to use it for proprietary work