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It doesn't seem so. I think they're just switching the internal processors that do LBA translation, error correction, bad-block marking etc over to RISC. And th
by sjburt 9y ago
It doesn't seem so. I think they're just switching the internal processors that do LBA translation, error correction, bad-block marking etc over to RISC. And then their marketing department took that decision and ran with it in a completely different direction.
The key line is "... transitioning its own consumption of processors – over one billion cores per year – to RISC-V."
- joezydeco 9y ago...which is a message to investors meaning "we're dropping the cost of our product without dropping prices". If that ARM license is half a dollar, a billion devices per year is a lot of profit.
- WillPostForFood 9y agoIt would be surprising if prices didn't continue to drop.
- Moto7451 9y agoYour point still stands, but it’s probaably less than fifty cents unless they’re building something really high end. Oldie but goodie: https://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-how-arms-business-model-works/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-h...
- nimish 9y agoFar more likely is that the SSD controllers that WD-SanDisk will create (that are the value-add difference between commodity NAND and good SSDs) will now use RISC-V cores. Samsung has a 5-core controller in its drives; I would guess that licensing costs are a pretty hefty chunk of the BOM for creating the controller
- phkahler 9y ago>> Samsung has a 5-core controller in its drives Samsung is developing their own RISC-V cores too...