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Re:Power9 to the People by Keyframe on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:18AM (#15860242)
In principle, yes. In practice, it's still at least a few years out in the space they're targeting. At least.
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Re:Power9 to the People by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:36AM (#15860329)
I think it might be there sooner than we expect. The WD announcement (completely different market) came as a great surprise, a least to me. I bet we can be surprised by RISC-V being used in many different ways relatively soon.
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Re:Power9 to the People by Keyframe on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:06PM (#15864490)
"It's just an ISA" though. Processor design is hard and takes time, yo. OTOH, I hope too!
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