Readit NewsIt's true, most humans aren't always L5. That's not a bug.
I think they work in most conditions. How someone can look at Cruise and Waymo already in operation today and think they won't be generally available in 7 years is amazing to me.
As of November, a large number of extensions got ratified, including the vector extension, cryptography acceleration, hypervisor support and other important features.
RISC-V is finally not missing any important feature ARM or amd64 have, and it does it with an order of magnitude lower number of instructions (equivalent but simpler, i.e. better) and with significantly higher code density.
However, test chips with the first designs implementing all of that will take time, even assuming they were tapped out right then, after confirming no last minute changes.
High performance cores depend on these extensions, so we'll begin to see them soon. We know multiple such efforts exist.
Tenstorrent has one such project, led by Jim Keller.
>Their (ARM) business model was to be sold to NVIDIA, but that didn't work out.
They intend to go public now. I recommend against buying those shares, as I do not expect ARM to turn around.
This is not correct and is a known weakness of RISC-V at the moment. The ARM toolchains are really good and have decades of improvements in them. This is a big issue for those who need to buy ROM in volume.
Better tools are coming online though. For example:
https://blog.segger.com/code-size-closing-the-gap-between-ri...
"One of the issues faced by RISC-V developers is that the code density of the RISC-V instruction set for deeply embedded processors does not match that of Cortex-M with existing tools."
However, the Times also employed Judith Miller, which goes to show how little such processes are worth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...
"In the buildup to the 2003 war, the New York Times published a number of stories claiming to prove that Iraq possessed WMD. One story in particular, written by Judith Miller, helped persuade the American public that Iraq had WMD: in September 2002 she wrote about an intercepted shipment of aluminum tubes which the NYT said were to be used to develop nuclear material."
In the first case anyone with the right skills can do it. In the second you need access to lots of specialist tools / proprietary industry knowledge.
If RISC-V 'wins' in application processors it will be because an Intel or a Qualcomm invests (probably) hundreds of millions in building a team that works on a multi year project. It definitely won't be bored high schoolers.
https://info.efabless.com/press-release-efabless-launches-ch...
"By "major cities" we mean any of the top 10 most populous cities in the United States of America."
Phoenix is in that list.