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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by rjsw on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:12PM (#20803826)
Nvidia are supposed to be using RISC-V inside future GPUs.
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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by TomVDB on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:21PM (#20803902)
Yes, as a replacement for their internal proprietary logic controllers which operate in the periphery.

That has nothing to do with the RISC-V ISA being the right choice for core functionality like shader cores.

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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by Fnoord on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:47AM (#20806890)
AFAIU their RISC-V variant can also be proprietary, akin to FreeBSD based products such as Junyper or macOS
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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by monocasa on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:39PM (#20804062)
To replace their falcon cores in the places I talked about in my second paragraph.
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Re:Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Asc... by rjsw on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:12AM (#20809169)
I was just trying to point out that Nvidia seems to be a bit more positive about the idea than "it might make sense".
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