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Well it piqued my interest in non RISC V things.
by baz00 3y ago
Well it piqued my interest in non RISC V things.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoSiFive != RISC-V Hopefully, we will be able to allow SiFive to fail gracefully and the architecture will keep going.
- uticus 3y agoI mean, sure, I guess, technically. But really? Look at past submissions here on HN alone. The percentage of headlines containing "SiFive" without "RISC-V" is like minimal. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=sifive&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- pclmulqdq 3y agoI would suggest that coverage here is somewhat biased. Today, SiFive basically owns the market for high-performance RISC-V cores, and that is the market that really interests HN. That market is also really small. On the low end, there is a vibrant ecosystem of chips and IP providers, and SiFive is actually increasingly uncompetitive. This seems to be where the money really is, but it doesn't make SiFive excited. This market doesn't get cited on HN.
- uticus 3y agoThat's a fair point.
- Tuna-Fish 3y agoYou are looking at the relationship from the wrong end. Everything SiFive does is about RISC-V. Everything that's important about RISC-V is not done by SiFive. (And if Qualcomm wins the current pissing contest for the future of the ISA, nothing that's important about RISC-V will be about SiFive, and that's fine. Qualcomm's ideas for the future are certainly better.)