Re:Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V site after own staff revolt
by Nokinside on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:14AM
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Yes you have. It's completely different to design small volume ASIC chip with RISC-V processor and high volume microprosessor core that is cost effective.
Processor initiative in EU and India have are providing R&D money for basic research and competence building for local companies. They will be customers, not manufacturers.
Re:Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V site after own staff revolt
by nickik on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @01:32PM
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The EU and India will both build actual chips and those can be tapped out. They will also of course consume their own stuff.
There are startups like Esperanto and many university groups and open source who are all interested.
Of course you still need to find costumers for a mass tapeout, but once the whole linux tool-chain is running there are lots of potential applications and costumers.
You don't have to spend $300-$500 to get to a reasonable performance. There are multiple people who are interested in this.
The EU and India have processor initiatives (including high perf) that will use RISC-V. Many universities, non-profits, companies will continue to work on the current open-source chips and combined with open source.
Of course it will take time but blanked 'You won't see high performance open source micro-architectures' is just an assumption.