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Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 28 2019, @07:50AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:30PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:30PM (#872365) Journal

    There is a reason Intel hasn't be able to develop GPUS that are competitive with NVIDIA and AMD. The knowledge does not just transfer from one type of processor to the next.

    They've always had the knowledge, Intel integrated graphics is on hundreds of millions of systems and "good enough" for many users, and they are reentering the discrete GPU market [tomshardware.com] next year.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:41PM (#872370)

    Intel makes low tier gpus. They cannot compete with NVIDIA and AMD.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:50PM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:50PM (#872375) Journal

      We'll see next year.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @06:31AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @06:31AM (#872545)

        Didn't Intel poach quite a few graphics people from AMD and the others recently? I wouldn't be surprised if their cards are good, and if they have good linux support I'd buy one in a heartbeat (and there's no reason to believe they wouldn't have great 1st class support).