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Re:What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical by IshKebab on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:39PM (#47723972)
I think 10 years is a more realistic estimate. Probably first in servers and Android phones.
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Re:What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical by ThatMedicIsASpy on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:35PM (#47725250)
They are everywhere already in microcontrollers like ESP32.
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Re:What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical by IshKebab on Saturday April 11, 2026 @04:59AM (#47728856)
Yeah but op was talking about directly using a RISC-V computer. The embedded RISC-V CPUs are effectively black boxes.
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Re:What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical by LeFantome on Sunday April 12, 2026 @08:50PM (#47746214)
Hyperscalers are using RISC-V servers today. Here is an example from SiFive (USA).

https://www.sifive.com/blog/investing-in-our-next-chapter-of...

And here is an example of Alibaba using RISC-V for inference and training in the cloud:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/08/china-alibaba-data-cente...

Those are both up and running today.

And of course there is Tenstorrrent:

https://tenstorrent.com/ip/risc-v-cpu

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