This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive

&gt; The instructions are immutable and hidden behind proprietary technology. But starting in 2025, you could buy a new and improved laptop whose secrets are known to all.<p>Maybe silly question: the ISA has no license fee or restrictions, but does RISC-V also somehow imply that the microarchitecture will be open? (like in a GPL-style way or something?) Maybe the one in the article is open, but does RISC-V actually make that more likely in the future?<p>Not that a license-free ISA would be pointless otherwise, but the article feels misleading if it&#x27;s possible to have closed RISC-V designs

&gt; RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) poised to make personal computing more, well, personal<p>Eerrr, how exactly? RISC-V is poised to make companies not pay the ARM fee. That&#x27;s it.

I wonder if the processors in the new laptops need many seconds to initialize themselves after they are powered on like Intel processors do.<p>Seems to me that a lot of people would buy a cheap laptop that is ready to use within a few seconds of being turned on. (Maybe the web browser requires more time, but the user can start writing something down after just 2 seconds.)

I wonder if the processors in the new laptops need many seconds to initialize themselves after they are powered on like Intel processors do.

GitHub Actions doesn&#x27;t even support arm64 compilation yet for Linux. Without good support from GitHub, open source compilation and adoption for diverse platforms struggles.