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: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 28 2019, @01:25PM (4 children)
Nope. I despise laptops because of the tiny screens and shitty keyboards, tablets are like computers but without actually being useful, and phones are like tiny, less useful tablets that can also make phone calls and send/receive texts.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @12:13AM (1 child)
What you are really saying is that living in the basement there isn't any need for portable devices...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 29 2019, @04:57PM
Nope, I'm saying I almost never have any need of anything from a phone beyond calling and texting while I'm out and about because anyone who wants anything more can eat a bag of dicks. And I won't even be available for those while fishing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sgleysti on Monday July 29 2019, @01:47PM (1 child)
You can get so much more computer for the money in a tower, and it's a lot easier to find configurations that support ECC ram. Upgradeability is orders of magnitude better, and I can put in as many native serial ports as I've got PCIe slots for.
Work gave me a laptop, and I almost always use it docked, even though the dock is flaky (based on USB-C/thunderbolt, has firmware, etc.). I've got to have two monitors and a real keyboard + mouse.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 29 2019, @04:58PM
Quality input devices make a fucking world of difference, yep.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.