LeFantome

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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> China massacre thousands of its own > China massacre thousands Is the first one worse to you? > massacre thousands Does the second automatically seem worse than the third? The one not called China has shot and killed multiple of
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Thankfully, DeepSeek is the most open of the model providers. And in the hardware side, RISC-V is gaining a lot of traction in China. So the dependency on a single supplier is lower with the Chinese tech stack than with most western options
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Does “low level” translate to performance? Is Rust a “low level” language? Take C#. You can write a compiler in it that is very fast. It gives you explicit control over memory layout of data structures and of course total control over what
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> What I find lacking in web pages is a motivation From those pages: "The purpose of Kefir project is producing an independent C17/C23 compiler with well-rounded architecture and well-defined scope that is feasible for implemen
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
How fast is the “new” Commodore 64? Have not heard much about it since launch. Although, now that I look, it seems they are just shipping now. https://www.commodore.net/product-page/commodore-64-ultimate...
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Linux benefits long term from the fragmentation that hurts it in the short-term. Competing projects means it is harder for software to go too far down the wrong road. Go to far and somebody emerges to replace you. And popular ideas emerge t
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Why did he prefer it to RISC-V? Just more mature or some architectural advantage?
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Seems I am not going to get offered those shares. This thread is pointing to the "disaster" at SiFive a few years ago as evidence that they will do badly in the future. What has happened since this attached video suggesting that t
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
This could have been a story about any ISA but it warms my heart to see RISC-V optimizations like this appearing bit by bit every day. RISC-V chips that are fast enough to get used are appearing now and, when they do, the software ecosystem
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> I’m looking forward to using a RISC-V computer I may be using this one soon: https://store.deepcomputing.io/products/dc-roma-risc-v-mainb...
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
The experiment never ended. Pretty much every new ISA introduced since the 80’s has been RISC. PowerPC was adopted by Apple (RISC), they went back to Intel (CISC), and then they went back to RISC (Apple Silicon). ARM, pretty much all phones
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Correct, ARM does not dominate x86 in desktop and servers. Just everywhere else. Apple is top 5 for laptop and desktop market share. So, pretty sure Apple RISC Silicon has a presence in those markets. Very recently, Qualcomm has entered as
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Hyperscalers are using RISC-V servers today. Here is an example from SiFive (USA). https://www.sifive.com/blog/investing-in-our-next-chapter-of... And here is an example of Alibaba using RISC-V for inference and traini
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> the whole RISC-V thing will remain a tiny niche I think this is going to embarrassingly wrong. > all of the SW that is native to the platform There are several RISC-V Linux distros where essentially all the software available for t
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Do you have a lot of experience with x86 SBCs? The RISC-V server spec mandates UEFI, ACPI, and SBI. Here is a RISC-V “desktop” motherboard that has the same: https://milkv.io/titan
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> Is this really true? I think the issue is that desktop and server computing are “open” in the sense that you have full control over the software you run on them. So people interpret the dominant desktop and server platform architecture
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> the main use case for RISC-V has been providing access to CPU technology for regimes under sanctions Here is a US based company that just raised another $400 million to push RISC-V in the datacenter. They claim to have ARM Neoverse N2
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Yes. I will absolutely take both of those bets. Do you have SiFive shares you can sell me? Real question.
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> platform fragmentation RISC-V is addressing this issue quite directly. For things like desktops, laptops, SBCs and servers we have the RVA23 profile which defines quite specifically what features a chip must support to ensure code port
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Pinecil?
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
SiFive, Tenstorrent, and other big RISC-V firms are not Chinese.
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
ARM is RISC and dominates x86 in most markets. In 2026, RISC-V is not what I would call “low end”. Look up the P870-D, or Ascalon, it C950. Do you think Apple spends more money than Intel on chip design?
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
There are many more RISC chips than not. Apple Silicon is RISC. All ARM is RISC (eg. Raspberry Pi).
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Yes, extensions are perfect for embedded. But not just there. Extensions allow you to address specific customer needs, evolve specific use cases, and experiment. AI is another perfect fit. And the hyperscaler market is another one where the
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
> astonishingly poor investment Very brave of you to put that on the Internet. They claim to have customers using P870-D silicon today. That is about Neoverse N2 performance territory, except SiFive claims 25% smaller die area and lower
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Apologies, I responded in the wrong place so see my other comment. Here is the most relavent bit... "Today, with over 500 design wins and our customers shipping more than 10 billion SiFive-based cores, SiFive has proven-in-silicon qual
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
"Today, with over 500 design wins and our customers shipping more than 10 billion SiFive-based cores, SiFive has proven-in-silicon quality that customers can rely on." "SiFive’s 3rd Generation of Performance CPU IP, the P870-
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Those barely work with Linux. And I have found the WiFi to be incompatible with some networks.
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Are you thinking of Code Weavers?
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by LeFantome 6mo ago
Do it

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