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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by phkahler on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:37PM (#24022807)
SonicBoom is an open source Risc V core that is clock for clock competitive with the best from ARM. There is still the issue of matching clock speed and tweaking for a given process.

Foundries actually have an interest in helping to optimize an open core for their process as a selling point since it can be reused by multiple customers.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by skavi on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:06PM (#24026002)
Their own paper[0] shows it performing at similar levels to the A72, a four year old core. Those are obviously really impressive results for an open source core.

The best ARM core is Apple’s Lightning, which has an IPC rate about 4X that of the A72. [0]: https://carrv.github.io/2020/papers/CARRV2020_paper_15_Zhao....

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by phkahler on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:51PM (#24030161)
Do you have a reference the Apples IPC?
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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by skavi on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:10PM (#24064371)
I was using AnandTech’s SPEC2006 benchmarks.
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