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Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 28 2019, @07:50AM   
from the pretty-RISC-V-purchase dept.

takyon writes:

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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• Re:And this is why Google is under investigation Re:And this is why Google is under investigation (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Shire on Sunday July 28 2019, @03:58PM (1 child)

  by The Shire (5824) on Sunday July 28 2019, @03:58PM (#872317)

  Google was unable to operate directly inside China. They established Singapore as their asian hub but roughly 90% of the staff at that location is from mainland China.

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• Re:And this is why Google is under investigation (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:00PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:00PM (#872346)

  yeah, it's sad you had to even explain that. i would have thought it was obvious what happened by the info you provided.

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