Re:Nvidia is now worth more than Intel
by CountSessine on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:22PM
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A typical GPU has a bunch of small microcontrollers on it, usually Cortex-M’s. Those need to be licensed. I wonder if Nvidia’s interest in RISC-V is just to replace those microcontrollers?
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Indeed, RISC-V has mainly been as replacement for Falcon cores in GPUs so far.
They evaluated vs Cortex A-53 through rather than Cortex-M.
https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tue1100_Nvidia_...