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High end today requires specialized chips. E.g. if you want massive parallel processing you would want small cores, because you can make more of those. RISC-V g
by socialdemocrat 5y ago
High end today requires specialized chips. E.g. if you want massive parallel processing you would want small cores, because you can make more of those. RISC-V gives that kind of flexibility of designing minimalist cores which can then be repeated a thousand times on a silicon die. The same thing that are beneficial for cheap specialized hardware is also often beneficial for high-end stuff, where you really need parallelism to push performance.
Whether you are designing a server chip or machine learning powerhouse it is all about having lots of cores. To get more cores you need smaller cores and RISC-V has demonstrated they can make small cores of half the size of an ARM core with similar performance.
RISC-V simplicity really starts paying off once you go very small.