mhayenga
Re:HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board
on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:06PM (#16299307)
Eh, if they have a defined project maybe...
$100 = Would buy this on a whim on the off-chance it's usable. Also, would consider buying 12x of them to outfit an undergrad lab.
$1000 = Have to have a clear project/vision in mind of how the board would be used and how other methods (FPGA/emulation) couldn't suffice.
Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a ...
on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:26PM (#15803377)
You really do an amazing job writing these up. Back when I used to work at ARM and attended the 3rd workshop, I ended up just pointing people to your write-up rather than my own notes.
Re:Broadcom Is Said to Explore Deal to Buy Qualcomm
on Friday November 03, 2017 @03:28PM (#15621660)
Freescale -> NXP -> Qualcomm -> Broadcom
Insanity. They really should replace the sign in front of the Austin Freescale office with a digital display to change as needed.
Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement
on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:27AM (#14023464)
This really isn't news, it's been known for years. A GPU team is based in Austin (knowing Apple, they likely have multiple).
Re:The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:43PM (#13864813)
As someone who voted "against" Uber/Lyft, I can promise you their PACs misleading and blatantly false propaganda regarding the city ordinance directly caused them to lose my vote. That and people love getting 4 fliers per day in their mailbox.
Good riddance.
Re:Princeton Piton Processor
on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @08:12AM (#12351409)
Eh, Wentzlaff (professor behind this) co-founded Tilera. He can definitely make something others could use. I view him doing OpenPiton as an attempt to give back to researchers now that he has become a prof.