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Chips that pass in the night: How risky is RISC-V to Arm, Intel and the others? Very

Mike Pellatt

Re: Been here before

Me too.

But by then (mid-80's, time of the 80386) the new kid on the block, and a real dark horse, was the Transputer. I remember one of the UK FAEs really wondering how much of a challenge it would be.

In the end, of course, it turned out as successful as VLIW.

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