Re:Ask HN: Does anyone have something negative to say about ...
by nickik on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:26PM
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I see your point about intensives.
However I have to disagree on your opinion on the hardware. RISC-V was specifically designed to be able to do low end very well. The whole encoding for example is optimized to a tiny amount of space. The overall instruction set again is designed to use minimum amount of space as well.
There is a whole project about 'ultra low power processors' at ETH Zürich [1]. They have specifically selected RISC-V because it fit their needs so well and they produce cores that beat available ARM and MIPS cores specially on energy. IBM selected a RISC-V core for their project in 'Next-Generation Edge Computing' [2].
So it seems to me that small and simple really does pay of when going to very tiny cores.
However I have to disagree on your opinion on the hardware. RISC-V was specifically designed to be able to do low end very well. The whole encoding for example is optimized to a tiny amount of space. The overall instruction set again is designed to use minimum amount of space as well.
There is a whole project about 'ultra low power processors' at ETH Zürich [1]. They have specifically selected RISC-V because it fit their needs so well and they produce cores that beat available ARM and MIPS cores specially on energy. IBM selected a RISC-V core for their project in 'Next-Generation Edge Computing' [2].
So it seems to me that small and simple really does pay of when going to very tiny cores.
[1] https://www.pulp-platform.org/
[2] https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/16.10-1...