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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: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Sunday July 28 2019, @04:32PM (3 children)
Can one of the experts here give a summary quantitative comparison of this to the top-of-the-line offerings from AMD and Intel? Or is such a comparison useless because it’s RISC?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @04:59PM (1 child)
As TFS says, not enough details. It's likely to be worse than x86 though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @12:12PM
It's RiscV, which is thoroughly documented. The instruction set is miles better dan x64.
These new processors are nowhere near as fast as current x64 though. Not even close and won't be for quite some time.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:03PM
chinese spyware instead of american spyware?