RISC-V Processors

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  1. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    SiFive Envisions 128-Core RISC-V SoCs as Gap With x86 and Arm Closes

    It looks like everyone has been busy developing their own alternatives to both Intel and AMD. The RISC-V processors were developed specially as an open source processor for Linux, and they're now claiming they have a core design that is on a par with Intel's current lineup for single core performance, while the RISC-V architecture is designed for multicore performance, so they've theoretically got a serious commercial product on their hands. However, its not likely to hit the consumer markets for a few years, but its nice to see even more competition entering the market.

    Right now, its the limited number of chips they can produce that is strangling prices, but by the time these chips can come on the market, they could easily take advantage of older fabrication technology to drive down prices for consumer laptops and cellphones. In the semi-conducting industry, three years is an eternity that can cut your prices in half. Currently, a really good laptop capable of running just about any small business might cost around $3,000.oo, so cutting that cost in half means Star Trek holodecks are not far behind.
     
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    Remember that "homescale supercomputer " they were hawking in the early y2k's which sort of configured 5 or 6 mobos to play in parallel for 50k vaporware?
    It will be fun to see that concept smoked :D
     
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    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Yeah, what we really need is an entirely different technology. The first gallium arsenide chips are coming on the market, but even those are still using old technology with a little polish. Billions of transistors on a single chip is great for a server, but our laptops should work with as few as 2,000, and the internet is still way too slow. Someone in the EU just introduced the first quantum optical transistor, capable of almost instantly crushing any quantum fast Fourier transform, in other words, a computer with a single transistor is no longer a complete oxymoron!

    At the rate all the technology is converging, many are saying the next scientific revolution has already begun, without anyone having a clue what its about!
     
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    FritzDaKatx2 Vinegar Taster

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    That's usually how it happens, steam engines began as a novelty item, my Granny used to spout, "Oh computers are just going to be another passing fad like the television!" as she sat on her ass eating chips and watching Columbo in the mid 80's.
    Shit happens all the time that the g.p. glazes right on past
     
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