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I apologize if this is a silly question but is there the possibility that this chip might see consumer availability outside of do-it-yourself FPGA implementatio
by bogomipz 9y ago
I apologize if this is a silly question but is there the possibility that this chip might see consumer availability outside of do-it-yourself FPGA implementations?
- wmf 9y agoAnything is possible, but it sure looks like everybody is working on microcontrollers and nobody is even trying to ship real cores.
- zik 9y agoThat's just because microcontrollers are cheaper and easier to produce. It's going to take someone with deep pockets to make a desktop competitive RISC-V processor.
- tyingq 9y agoLowrisc.org is between those two extremes. Nothing shipping yet though.
- vanjoe 9y agoNvidia had a presentation at the risc-v workshop a few years back. I think they are building chips with it. Nothing the regular programmer sees though I don't think
- bogomipz 9y agoThanks!
- legulere 9y agoThe privileged ISA is still a draft and is supposed to be finished later in this year. The privileged ISA is needed to support operating systems. There are projects out there targeting this kind of processors, for instance lowRISC.
- senatorobama 9y agoIt can run TempleOS :)
- userpass 9y agoI'm not sure what you could possibly do with a CPU that consists of just a "real" core. You still need the rest of the computer: a GPU, DDR4 memory controllers, PCIe 3.0, USB 3.0, SATA 6gbits. Unless you clear that hurdle your real cores are going to be paper weights. The market is already flooded with ARM SBCs with poor software support that fill the niche between high end laptop/desktop/smartphone and microcontroller.