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I didn’t know riscv was making its way into consumer goods yet. Any examples you can share of places seeing riscv adoption?
by _alex_ 6y ago
I didn’t know riscv was making its way into consumer goods yet. Any examples you can share of places seeing riscv adoption?
- rwmj 6y agoAllWinner are one company that has publicly disclosed doing a large multi-million run of chips: http://www.semimedia.cc/?p=7803 http://www.semimedia.cc/?p=7803 It's not exactly clear from that announcement what they are going to use them for though. "industrial control, smart home, and consumer electronics" - that's everything :-)
- snvzz 6y agoThis is great news. If peripherals are the same or similar to those in their existing ARM SoC chips, we'd be close to full support on release thanks to the linux-sunxi project efforts[0] and similar efforts in netbsd. [0]: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
- TomVDB 6y agoThey are in a lot of current Western Digital SSDs. Nvidia is known to have them in their GPUs in some form. I know of other consumer products where they are similarly used as embedded CPU, which is where RISC-V will be most prevalent in the coming years.
- rwmj 6y agoEven better, WD have open sourced their implementation (as SweRV core: https://github.com/chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV https://github.com/chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV)
- wtallis 6y agoWestern Digital is heavily involved in RISC-V, but I wasn't aware that they had confirmed any of their products are using RISC-V yet. Last I heard from them, their first generation of in-house NVMe SSD controllers were definitively not using RISC-V. And their second generation of NVMe SSD controllers is only just starting to ship.
- justincormack 6y agoThere are Risc-V chips in the Google Pixel phones in the image processing core, see notes here https://techroose.com/tech/riscvWorkshop.html https://techroose.com/tech/riscvWorkshop.html There are probably lots more, but lots are not documented.