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posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 05 2018, @03:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the HiFive-Unleashed dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Slowly but surely, RISC-V, the Open Source architecture for everything from microcontrollers to server CPUs is making inroads in the community. Now SiFive, the major company behind putting RISC-V c...

That's damned nifty but at a grand for a 1.5GHz system, I don't see them selling that many to consumers.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2018/02/03/sifive-introduces-risc-v-linux-capable-multicore-processor/


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @01:45PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 05 2018, @01:45PM (#633266) Homepage Journal

    ...it is not only the GHz that matters...

    FTFY. Clock speed always matters. Even on a single task chip that's had every bit of the logic moved from software to hardware and optimized to its physically possible limits.

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