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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @12:49PM (3 children)
That is not a CPU.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 28 2019, @01:32PM (2 children)
OP didn't say "CPU".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @01:37PM (1 child)
But they did say "This is why google is under investigation". Where "this" refers to this Alibaba CPU.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday July 29 2019, @03:03PM
The OP actually said, "it's why they are now the target of an antitrust investigation."
The referent of "it" isn't completely clear, but it appears to be the "AI partnership with communist china".
Not just the Alibaba CPU.