RyanAir is about exploiting consumers, with bait-and-switch and shitty terms and conditions.
RISC-V's modularity is about giving choice to hardware designers, so they can pick and choose just those features that their solution needs, and even allow for custom extensions.
RISC-V's modularity is for academia. 1) for education, where students learn/use/work on simple processors, 2) for research in new types of hardware and extensions, where ease of implementation or ease of creating a custom extension is important.
Extensiosn are not just for academia. If I am building a microcontroller to control the storage media I am selling (eg. hard drives), why do I need to implement a bunch of features I am not going to use? What about my flow rate monitor? Or my pacemaker?
In some of these, less silicon means less power means more better. Like that last example.
RyanAir is about exploiting consumers, with bait-and-switch and shitty terms and conditions.
RISC-V's modularity is about giving choice to hardware designers, so they can pick and choose just those features that their solution needs, and even allow for custom extensions.
RISC-V's modularity is for academia. 1) for education, where students learn/use/work on simple processors, 2) for research in new types of hardware and extensions, where ease of implementation or ease of creating a custom extension is important.