MIPS Becomes RISC-V
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MIPS Becomes RISC-V
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#2If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
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#3I guess that they're going to ship RISC-V CPUs? Makes sense. Do they still have design chops for making fast implementations?
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#4This is huge. It looks like the only architectures widely-deployed in ten years will be x86, ARM, Power, and RISC-V (maybe also SPARC64 in Japan, although that's rare in the US).
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#5This is more or less analogous to Blackberry moving to Android, isn’t it? Storied, old-guard tech company loses most of its market share, trades in its first-party stack for a rising open-source alternative.
Is MIPS still a big enough name to make this much of a coup for RISC-V? Or is this the last-ditch effort of a fallen star of the semi market?
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#6My historical skepticism on the acceptance and proliferation of RISC-V looks more antiquated by the day. No real dog in the fight, but I would love to see this take off like ARM did.
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#8This is huge. It looks like the only architectures widely-deployed in ten years will be x86, ARM, Power, and RISC-V (maybe also SPARC64 in Japan, although that's rare in the US).
The "not ARM based" MCU market might be interesting to watch as well. Not just for RISC-V, but also as ARM MCUs continue to drop in power needs and unit cost.
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#9This is huge. It looks like the only architectures widely-deployed in ten years will be x86, ARM, Power, and RISC-V (maybe also SPARC64 in Japan, although that's rare in the US).
The big innovation in architectures is in the SIMD world.
AVX512 (x86 512-bit), SVE (ARM 512-bit), NVidia PTX / SASS (32x32-bit), AMD RDNA (32x32-bit), AMD CDNA (64x32-bit).
64-bit cores (aka: classic CPUs) are looking like a solved problem, and are becoming a commodity. SIMD compute however, remains an open question. NVidia probably leads today, but there seems to be plenty of room for smaller players.
Heck, one major company (AMD) is pushing 32x32-bit on one market (6xxx series) and 64x32-bit in another market (MI100 / Supercomputers).
Re: MIPS Becomes RISC-V
#10If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
Or, conversely: beat 'em and eat 'em!