Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
by pbronez on Sunday September 13, 2020 @10:26AM
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> The bigger problem is RISC-V is immature and to use ARM as an example will need another decade to get its act together (for which I have high hopes BTW).
Do you think that RISC-V can overcome the inefficiencies discussed elsewhere in this thread with time? Specifically, can they improve the instruction set with more powerful addressing tools and reduce the number of instructions needed within loops?
Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
by neltnerb on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:56PM
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Isn't the only reason it couldn't be improved the threat of other companies with patents? I thought that was usually the underlying culprit for missing capability.
I wonder what the best ISA we could create would be in a universe where there were no rent-seekers looking to recoup their R&D investment by limiting what a new ISA could contain.
Five years is no big deal. In fact there’s so much in the pipeline it’s likely little will be different For 3-5 years.
The bigger problem is RISC-V is immature and to use ARM as an example will need another decade to get its act together (for which I have high hopes BTW). I agree with you that this will definitely be a shot in the arm for RISC-V.
> it's going to cause a huge fracture in software stacks at the exact WORST time [due to platform convergence]
This is far from the worst time, and platform monoculture is not something to be celebrated. So from that perspective you’ve given me some encouragement from the news of this deal.