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As someone who is far removed from the hardware and instruction set relationship, when would one need a new processor and instruction set? How do you know you'r
by quest88 6y ago
As someone who is far removed from the hardware and instruction set relationship, when would one need a new processor and instruction set? How do you know you're at that point?
- rwmj 6y agoYou want to make a new ASIC for some application and you don't want the hassle and cost of having to negotiate a license with ARM. Recent RISC-V chips that I've seen have been used for machine learning for vision in cars, camera controllers, crypto co-processors, hard disk controllers, massively parallel co-processors (also for ML), GPU controller, "hard cores" embedded in FPGAs.
- google234123 6y agoThe real chips doing all those things in actual applications are not RISC-V
- rwmj 6y agoSo far. I wouldn't bet against free and zero friction however. Arm themselves are clearly worried otherwise the announcement in this article wouldn't have happened.