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Necro-reply here, but yes you got me. 2.63mm2 on 7nm is about 8mm2 on 16nm, which is same as the A72. And it was the A72, the A73's predecessor. I think the poi
by russler23 7y ago
Necro-reply here, but yes you got me. 2.63mm2 on 7nm is about 8mm2 on 16nm, which is same as the A72. And it was the A72, the A73's predecessor. I think the point stands that RISC-V is suited for high-performance designs, which was the original contention. If a startup can do 3-way OoO, an org with more resources can do 7-way OoO along with more sophisticated branch prediction and stronger cache coherency to catch up to state-of-the-art cores. There isn't anything in the RISC-V ISA preventing that.