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I'd say that SiFive has already proven you wrong with their cores which compare favorably to ARM9. IMHO RISC-V is already up to par with all but the most exoti

I'd say that SiFive has already proven you wrong with their cores which compare favorably to ARM9. IMHO RISC-V is already up to par with all but the most exotic ARM cores and will soon surpass it.

qwytw 4y ago
Well same (well more tbh) could be said about PowerPC back in the early 2000s when comparing it to x86. Look how that turned out. I mean it might happen but I don't see how is this in anyway a foregone conclusion. > wrong with their cores which compare favorably to ARM9 ARM9 is a 32bit core, the last design of which was released back in 2006. Are you saying RISC-V is competitive with ARM chips from 15 years ago? IMHO RISC-V seems to be in a spot (in relation to ARM & x86) where ARM was back in ~2000 compared to Intel. Very promising and superior in certain case, but still a very long way to become competitive on the higher end. Well it took 20 years for that to change, why would RISC-V do any better?
- snvzz 4y ago
  They're definitely confusing ARM9 with ARMv9 (the latest one with aarch64). SiFive IS competing (and doing quite well) with current ARM cores.
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  - yywwbbn 4y ago
    So the fastest SiFive chip seems to be the P600? Are there any benchmarks where it’s compared with similarly priced ARM chips? I couldn’t find any