Arm has taken offline its website attacking rival processor architecture RISC-V within days of it going live – after its own staff objected to the underhand tactic.
The site – riscv-basics.com – was created at the end of June, and attempted to smear open-source RISC-V, listing five reasons why Arm cores are a better choice over its competitor’s designs. However, the stunt backfired, with folks in the tech industry, and within the company’s own ranks, slamming the site as a cheap shot and an attack on open source.
Good on ARM’s own employees for speaking up.
The backlash was predictable.
Employee backlash causing them to ditch the campaign within a week? That I did not see coming.
so, thanks ARM marketing department
I expect most people reading the article hadn’t. All ARM have done is provide free advertising to an open-source project.
I bet Android will have an official port to RISC-V within a year
Edited 2018-07-12 14:07 UTC
No, because there is not platform ready for that right now, only Arduino-like development board that doesn’t allow for serious Linux-like coding.
When you wanna strong ARM the competition, better be a FAIRCHILD.