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Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

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Re: Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

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I wonder if this will contribute to the world having RISC-V laptops sooner rather than later.

Why would we want RISC-V on laptops?

Just reading up on it, the big thing pushing this is that the instruction set is completely open source. That's why someone might want it.

https://hackernoon.com/why-we-need-risc-v-f94e3929891b

Re: Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

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I wonder if this will contribute to the world having RISC-V laptops sooner rather than later.

Why would we want RISC-V on laptops?

Why not? a diverse ecosystem of silicon with some actual competition is going to help get us out of this US-centric intel/amd world where all laptops are essentially the same

Re: Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

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I wonder if this will contribute to the world having RISC-V laptops sooner rather than later.

Why would we want RISC-V on laptops?

Maybe it won't contain a vendor "management engine".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Claims...

Re: Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

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I think that RISC-V has a long way to go to be actually competitive with ARM on a IPC basis. Although it is great to have more competition in the market I believe that this is more of a 5-10 year goal rather than distinctly near term.

RISC-V is an instruction set - I think you're confusing that particular implementations of RISC-V (of which there are few yet)

Re: Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

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post #6

I think that RISC-V has a long way to go to be actually competitive with ARM on a IPC basis. Although it is great to have more competition in the market I believe that this is more of a 5-10 year goal rather than distinctly near term.

RISC-V is an instruction set - I think you're confusing that particular implementations of RISC-V (of which there are few yet)

But none of them are competitive at all on an IPC basis right?

Don't get me wrong, I would love a RISC-V chip that is competitive with the ARM chips in smartphones but I think we are quite aways away from it for the time being.

RISC-V is most successful as microcontrollers who do not have to be state-of-the-art fast, they just have to work reliably.

Re: Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

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I wonder if this will contribute to the world having RISC-V laptops sooner rather than later.

Why would we want RISC-V on laptops?

if not for anything else why not simply for competition, more choice and lower prices?
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