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Pity ... RISC-V is so much better perspective ... and free.
by vermaden 3y ago
Pity ... RISC-V is so much better perspective ... and free.
- snvzz 3y agoI don't think this deal excludes Apple from using RISC-V. What it does is secure their ability to still use ARM for a while.
- bhouston 3y agoPatience. RISC-V is an unstoppable freight train but it isn’t yet up to speed. RISC-V is not yet ready for the high end needs that Apple has. RISC-V doesn't yet have the single core performance nor the ability to scale to many cores like ARM does -- or at least I haven't seen it. I think that when RISC-V can do this and is competitive with ARM, Apple could look at it. Apple isn't married to ARM forever, remember it used to be Motorola, then IBM PowerPC, then Intel x86 and now ARM. Given that Apple just did the transition to ARM, I do not expect they will look around for the ARM successor for a while. But a decade from now it wouldn't be surprising for them to consider RISC-V, at that point its capabilities should rival ARM if not exceed it while also being much more easily customized.
- snvzz 3y agoNot in hardware you can buy, yet. But there's e.g. Ascalon[0], design lead by Wei-han Lien, who previously led M1 at Apple. 0. https://tenstorrent.com/risc-v/ https://tenstorrent.com/risc-v/
- CameronNemo 3y agoThis doesn't make sense. Apple doesn't use publicly available ARM core designs. What about the ISA would make Apple's core designs impractical or less efficient?
- Tagbert 3y agoApple has used RISC-V in some embedded controller implementations recently. Perhaps due to licensing cost or perhaps just to get experience with the chipset.