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Re:Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night by wyldfire on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:29AM (#17868042)
IIUC it's critically dependent on the manufacturing process used.

> how much would it cost

A CPU IC isn't very interesting until it has some I/O, so it's much more meaningful to talk about an SoC with one or more of these darkriscv cores.

Sorry, I don't have an answer other than to say "this isn't quite complete enough for it to be useful for most tasks." That said, there's probably tons of open source implementations of DDR/SPI/PCI/USB interfaces (on opencores.org, e.g.). So it's "only" a matter of integrating these.

Re:Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night by abfan1127 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:09AM (#17868311)
fastest speeds depend on two things. First the manufacturing technology used (smaller is faster because parasitic capacitance is smaller, although finfet is getting to have large parasitic resistance). The 2nd factor is the datapath between flip flops. Some architectures handle very fast clock rates because the data path is simple (or pipelined). Others are quite slow. I've seen some architectures top out at 500MHz when another architecture is running over 1 GHZ in the same chip.