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on Thursday November 30 2017, @09:35AM
from the whatever-will-they-do-with-the-one-billion-leftover-apples? dept.
from the whatever-will-they-do-with-the-one-billion-leftover-apples? dept.
From a Western Digital press release:
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today at the 7th RISC-V Workshop that the company intends to lead the industry transition toward open, purpose-built compute architectures. In his keynote address, Western Digital's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink expressed the company's commitment to [...] transitioning its own consumption of processors – over one billion cores per year – to RISC-V.
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Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V
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Your step will soil many countries.
(Score: 2) by Rich on Thursday November 30 2017, @09:35PM
We can be happy every time such a libre solution scores a design win and gets a bit more entrenched.
I'm wondering what strings have been pulled behind the scenes. I've been dabbling in the world of DLX-descendents, particularly with a bit of work on the Microblaze Linux port for a vertical market customer, and have been aware of the developments. (To those who haven't heard of DLX or Hennessy/Patterson-Architecture, it's kind of the idea seed for the MIPS like architectures, Microblaze, OpenRISC and now RISC-V).
So there is already a libre contender in this area (OpenRISC), even being used commercially (Samsung). The RISC-V guys are late to the party. They pull an NIH (yeah, i've seen their arguments...), deliver something which looks a tad too seasoned for an academic project, and soon after score a 1bn/a units design win.
It will be interesting to watch that space.