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This is certainly positive news. We need more competition in the processor field. Having essentially a choice between Intel and AMD got us malware like the Intel Management Engine and its AMD equivalent. With a monopoly comes enshitification.
Not that I disagree with you but what's stopping any ARM or RISC-V CPU manufacturer from putting their own version of IME in their chips?
ARM TrustZone is already common on A-series. Device manufacturers want secure storage & computation, so chipmakers provide it.
There's ARM, with Snapdragon, Mediathek, Broadcom, Nvidia, Apple and Ampere. Contrary to RISC-V it's already used in many computers.
All of which also have plenty of proprietary components and aren't created with FOSS in mind.
I hope that as RISC-V progresses, companies will pick it up and develop on top of it, giving users full access to their hardware alongside FOSS software
Sure, but they're all using ARM IP; RISCV isn't just one entrant into the processor IP market like ARM is, it allows any company to become an entrant with its own IP.
Sure it's not currently the ISA for man main processors, but it is already used by companies like NVIDIA and WD in their products.
Duopolys might be worse. The illusion of choice and opponent security.
What is the amd equivalent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor
Bruh