Did you know that hardware can be open-source?
Crucial technology leading the hardware part of the open-source movement is the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).
One of the companies working with the RISC-V ISA is MIPS.
In addition to having the advantage of being open-source, RISC-V is a "reduced instruction set computer" architecture, which means CPUs based on it typically use less power than the complex instruction set computer architecture used in desktop and server computers.
RISC-V chips are everywhere, and we don't notice them. They might be powering the fingerprint reader on your laptop or are a part of your car's electronics; they are even used in Nvidia GPUs.
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