Re:AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks
by sannee on Monday August 28, 2017 @03:12PM
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Do you know of a RISC-V CPU suitable for desktop use? As far as I know, no one yet produced any silicon for that market.
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Re:AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks
by monocasa on Monday August 28, 2017 @03:18PM
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Seriously, I don't know of any publicly available RISC-V silicon with even an MMU, say nothing of 'desktop' class.
Re:AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks
by FullyFunctional on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:38AM
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SiFive announced that at Hot Chips 2017 (last week): their quad+1 core is coming out early next year.
In addition to that, I expect to see some interesting announcements at the RISC-V workshop in Nov.
Patience, patience. It's likely that RISC-V adoption will happen bottom up, first deeply embedded space (like NVIDIA, who is using it internally in the GPU for managements). Next, bigger cores will also happen especially where there's no (perceived) advantage to using ARM. A standalone chip will probably come late and will likely come from China from someone looking for a way to stand out from the myriad of ARM vendors out there.
Just the idle musings of an ARM-chair analyst.