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It's not disparaging to say that the best RISC-V chips are now similar to Pentium in microarchitecture. Those (and PowerPC 601/603) were great chips in their ti
by brucehoult 5y ago
It's not disparaging to say that the best RISC-V chips are now similar to Pentium in microarchitecture. Those (and PowerPC 601/603) were great chips in their time.
The current RISC-V chips are using modern process nodes and running at 10x higher clock speeds and the HiFive Unmatched board has modern peripherals such as 16 GB DDR4 RAM, M.2 SSD, current PCIe graphics card, gig ethernet etc.
So it's a far better computer than any Pentium 133 or something like that. Just similar microarchitecture.
Intel is still today basically using the 1995 Pentium Pro microarchitecture, with a few tweaks. The equivalent of that is already announced in RISC-V land, just not shipping until probably next year.