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Interesting. Maybe adding small sub-cores to current dies for other workloads?
by trollied 5y ago
Interesting. Maybe adding small sub-cores to current dies for other workloads?
- TickleSteve 5y agoThey already have an ARM license and the vast majority of ARM processors in existence are Cortex-M class microprocessors (i.e ARM pretty much owns the target market for RISC-V at the moment). This means they're not looking at RISC-V for any technical reason (for which Cortex-Ms generally outperform RISC-V) but rather for strategic reasons (i.e. dependency on ARM/Nvidia).
- londons_explore 5y agoThings you do for strategic reasons you tend to do in a half-arsed way. You know that you're only porting to an architecture to act as a negotiating lever, so you assign a small team of cheap engineers to the task. This doesn't seem to be that.
- marcan_42 5y agoThey already have a ton of those. There are 12 or so coprocessors in the M1, some of them multicore. Most are Apple's own small 64-bit core design (Chinook), but there are 3 or 4 Cortex-M3s too.