Re:Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers la...
by zozbot234 on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:13AM
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> The RISC-V ISA is pretty awful for high-end designs. No competitive servers can be built with it.
I have to dispute this. RISC-V was specifically intended to make high-end designs (i.e. out-of-order architectures, multicore, SMT etc.) not just feasible but relatively easy. It's also designed for extensibility from the ground up, which few others architectures are.
I have to dispute this. RISC-V was specifically intended to make high-end designs (i.e. out-of-order architectures, multicore, SMT etc.) not just feasible but relatively easy. It's also designed for extensibility from the ground up, which few others architectures are.