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> In other words, if you want competitive RISC-V chip, some company must spend hundreds of millions to develop their own RISK-V chip architecture... I wonder i
by peatmoss 9y ago
> In other words, if you want competitive RISC-V chip, some company must spend hundreds of millions to develop their own RISK-V chip architecture...
I wonder if a country like Russia, wanting something that they can deploy without worrying that the NSA & Intel are cooperating on state spying, will eventually try and take something like this and bootstrap a domestic semiconductor line of business.
- Nokinside 9y agoRussians have build their own processors for decades. They have used SPARC instructions sets and they also have their own VLIW Elbrus 64-bit ISA and processors are made by TSMC for 28 nm process. It has Intel x86 comparability with system-level dynamic translation. Just adopting new Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is not going to help to magically boost semiconductor business.
- srett 9y agoThe Russians have Baikal (T1), the Chinese have Loongson (3A/B). Both are MIPS based. Unfortunately, even though both announced that there will be consumer hardware available over a year ago, it did not happen. So I'm not too optimistic regarding RISC-V.