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 The Shire on Sunday July 28 2019, @04:04PM
They are still very very far from nipping at Intel or AMD's heels but they have the backing of the communist chinese government along with the IP that Google is essentially handing over to them coupled with whatever technology they can steal from the West to start to close the gap. China rarely develops anything new themselves, but when their fearless leader points them in a direction they become quite good at stealing from the rest of the world and replicating it. They're sort of like the Pakleds from the old Star Trek Next Gen. They don't create, they steal and replicate.