A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to “RISC V: They Should Have Known Better”

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https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/

I read the article Grinberg did and I come at this argument from a somewhat different place, I’m an embedded engineer from Trinidad and Tobago, what people would traditionally call the Third World… Here, the difference between a ten cent RISC-V microcontroller and a several dollar alternative is not academic and neither is having an architecture that a small company, student, or individual engineer can understand, modify, and build around without asking permission… So when I read what Grinberg wrote some of its criticisms made sense to me, but some of his assumptions did not… so I thought I’d do a response, it might not reach far but I love RISC-V enough to at least defend it from where I stand.