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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:Meaningless Re:Meaningless (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @12:13AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @12:13AM (#872458)

  What you are really saying is that living in the basement there isn't any need for portable devices...

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• Re:Meaningless (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 29 2019, @04:57PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday July 29 2019, @04:57PM (#872716) Homepage Journal

  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.

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  My rights don't end where your fear begins.

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