SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by robot on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:22AM (#24459075)

I am actually pretty curious to see a demo of features from you that backs up that RISC-V is bad and Open Power is much better.

What convinced me was how thin the RISC-V book[1] is, and I have seen both ARM and Intel reference manuals. For example the V extension removes need to specify data size, greatly reducing instructions needed.

I have no idea about Open Power btw.

[1] http://riscvbook.com/

P.S. I am hiring U.S. candidates for ARMv8, x86 roles: https://careers.vmware.com/main/jobs/R2009422?lang=en-us

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Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B by saagarjha on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:58AM (#24459243)

While I’m not really an expert on either, I have looked at code for both and I got the impression that RISC-V’s “simplicity” is actively harmful to making it a good ISA outside of teaching because it’s instructions are just not really all that great; indexing into an integer array (for example) is a shift, add, then load while basically every other architecture can do this in one instruction. It seems to me that the ISA is really designed more towards being pretty than being practical.

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