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Intel in talks to acquire RISC-V firm SiFive for $2B
- jlundberg 5y agoDoes this mean Chris Lattner might join Intel’s new chipset mission? :-) Yay!
- mrtweetyhack 5y agoWhy. They could just hire or repurpose a few engineers and build a competitor. This is just dumb.
- romesmoke 5y agoLadies and gentlemen, the Chip Wars board is now set. Though ARM+NVIDIA seem to hold the high ground due to the RISC+SIMD coupling, who knows how far RISC-V's vector instructions and VLIW could go when combined with Intel's domain knowledge...
- mrlonglong 5y agoI hope this won't ruin RISCV with countless binary blobs. I just got a Kendryte K210 to play with.
- 324gyyhhjj 5y ago> 'Intel in talks to eat smaller company that might otherwise grow to challenge Intel' There's been a lot of news this past week about Congress finally doing something about megacorps buying smaller companies before they can become challengers. We'll all have to wait and see if Congress actually acts.
- m463 5y agoBut isn't that an important business model for smaller companies? How would you distinguish between a large corporation bringing an important idea to fruition, and and "buy and bury"? I mean, what if intel develops risc-v to compete with arm, such as the chips from apple? Robust competition is very good for everyone.
- brucehoult 5y agoIntel doesn't need to buy anyone or take any license to start making RISC-V chips that compete with Apple's M1. And in fact SiFive really can't help Intel with this as SiFive is just in the process of shipping RISC-V chips similar in complexity to Pentium (but at higher clock speed), and is preparing chips similar to Pentium Pro (OoO) or Pentium II (OoO with SIMD)
- bcrl 5y agoIntel's culture will prevent any truly impressive internal RISC-V project from gaining any traction. Just look at what has happened with every non-x86 CPU ever made by Intel.
- frozenport 5y agoIntel has a bad track record with acquisitions dating back to at least StrongARM, this will simply be 2B lost while another company will fill the RISC-V vacuum.