Alibaba Crafts A 16-Core RISC-V Chip @ 2.5GHz
Alibaba this week announced a RISC-V 64-bit processor comprised of 16 cores at 2.5GHz. The Chinese RISC-V CPU is fabbed at 12nm and this RISC-V processor supports out of order execution. This Alibaba design achieves a 7.1 Coremark/MHz rating, a great deal faster than any other publicly announced RISC-V processor. It's still not as fast as say the newest AMD Ryzen 9 or Intel Core i7/i9 parts, but it's certainly much better than all of the other RISC-V processors/SoCs we've seen announced to date. Unfortunately additional details on this Alibaba design are light.
Also at Tom's Hardware.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 28 2019, @12:05PM (1 child)
Light on details, likely proprietary, and not coming to the home user. But it's still good news.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday July 28 2019, @05:57PM
OTOH, "Out of Order execution" isn't exactly a benefit. It may be how you achieve a benefit, but in and of itself it means you need to verify carefully for things like Spectre vulnerabilities.
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