Alibaba’s research arm teases server-class RISC-V processor
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And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon – running the open edition of Huawei’s CentOS spinout
  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    8 months ago

    That’s an admirable goal, and I applaud the immense effort undertaken to make the OSS dream true.

    • Alex@lemmy.ml
      8·
      8 months ago

      The ISA may be open but I’m pretty sure the microarchitecture will be totally proprietary. Even with a kick ass microarchitecture they may still struggle if they can’t use the latest process nodes to actually manufacture the chips.

      Having said that I suspect the main challenge RISCV is going to face is the software ecosystem. That stuff can take a decade to build and requires a degrees of cooperation between all the companies building chips.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    RiscV has been used for small specific tasks but running a whole OS on it still seems far fetched with so many libraries being unsupported. (yes it exists already but that is also very limited in functionality)