• billgamesh@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I can see where this came from. ARM and RISC-V are both reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architechtures but are not the same. Arm is a proprietary ISA originally from Acorn. Risc-v is a new ISA developed completely open-source

    EDIT: also, not to be killjoy, but for clarity “research arm” means apendage or division and is completely unrelated

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      9 months ago

      I disagree. The simplest and best reading is they have an ARM CPU for research, and the CPU produced the RISC-V design.

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        9 months ago

        Maybe we’re reading something different, or this is tongue and cheek but "Alibaba’s research arm, the Damo Academy, " sounds like research arm is a synonym for “research division” or “research department”.

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          9 months ago

          Nope, definitely a CPU. It’s the CPU that’s promising the server-class RISC-V processor.

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              9 months ago

              The part where it says “arm.”

              You’re really not getting the sarcasm here are you…

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                9 months ago

                No, I was hoping it’d be confirmed when I mentiomed it could be tongue in cheek. Doesn’t always come across in a thread where some are unironically making the same point.

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                  9 months ago

                  I was trying to criticize the original poster by using increasingly ridiculous arguments, when it was obvious they never actually read the article and even misread the post. Something something satire.

                  I guess it didn’t come off obvious enough. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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                    9 months ago

                    I’m just bad at reading sarcasm sometimes. Probably you were obvious and it went over my head