Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year

Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by microcolonel on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:48PM (#15801400)

I don't think it necessarily addresses that concern, but Machine mode might be the right place to address the concerns which ME addresses on a RISC-V machine; which means that it's at least more likely that it'll be programmable on whatever machine you're looking at.

Just a thought though, it could really go any way. The nice thing though, is that you'll have more than two vendors, which means that the niche of PSP/ME paranoids may be large enough to address for a smaller designer, or through a limited run of licensed design (like SiFive's).

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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by sverige on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:52PM (#15801465)

I'm one of the paranoids. This is one of the main things I'm hoping for. Is there any indication of what price point such chips might be offered at? I have no idea how much it costs to set up fabrication, etc., but it seems like ARM chips have done very well.

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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by pjc50 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:19PM (#15801812)

How long is a piece of string?

It depends entirely on features and performance. Like Intel and arm chips have a 10x range of cost.

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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by erikj on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:04PM (#15801602)

ARM chips have a much higher production volume so they are going to be much cheaper than RISC-V chips, at least for the foreseeable future.

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