Re:Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP
by brucehoult on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:09PM
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The first Graviton machines (which were worse than the current 64 core RISC-V SG2042) were installed in November 2018. Four and a half years later are now up to 20% or 25% of total AWS capacity. Even without any acceleration of adoption, it looks like they could be the majority of AWS within 10 years from first deployment.
There seems to be every reason RISC-V could do it faster. Graviton 1 level chips are available right now, Graviton 3 or better coming from multiple companies (including Keller's) in 2024-2025. The software is more critical, but once x86-only things have been made portable to Arm (which can be hard work), further porting them to RISC-V is much much easier.
There seems to be every reason RISC-V could do it faster. Graviton 1 level chips are available right now, Graviton 3 or better coming from multiple companies (including Keller's) in 2024-2025. The software is more critical, but once x86-only things have been made portable to Arm (which can be hard work), further porting them to RISC-V is much much easier.