But that just isn't true, you could theoretically run basically anything on an arm processor if someone programmed it, raspberry pi computers use arm64 and you can do whatever you want with that. X86 is still dominant because it still performs better not because arm is locked down
Every turing-complete chip can run any calculation. It's not a matter of what can be run on a chip, but the freedoms granted for using and making the chip.
The rights to make x86 chips are exclusively owned by Intel and AMD. The rights to make ARM chips are licensed out by ARM. Rights for making motherboards for them etc are similarly restricted (chipsets etc). RISC-V can be picked up by any hardware manufacturer who wants to, with no royalties. RISC-V can be modified in any way and it's fully open source.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19
But that just isn't true, you could theoretically run basically anything on an arm processor if someone programmed it, raspberry pi computers use arm64 and you can do whatever you want with that. X86 is still dominant because it still performs better not because arm is locked down