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SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 05 2018, @03:16AM   
from the HiFive-Unleashed dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Slowly but surely, RISC-V, the Open Source architecture for everything from microcontrollers to server CPUs is making inroads in the community. Now SiFive, the major company behind putting RISC-V c...

That's damned nifty but at a grand for a 1.5GHz system, I don't see them selling that many to consumers.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2018/02/03/sifive-introduces-risc-v-linux-capable-multicore-processor/

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• Re:How do you pronounce that? Re:How do you pronounce that? (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 05 2018, @04:57AM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Monday February 05 2018, @04:57AM (#633138) Journal

  I think that's the correct pronunciation: "Too damn'd expensive"...
  I can't justify a thousand bucks for it though.

  Well, that's not unexpected, I kinda suspect that "donation of thousand bucks" sound like foreign languages to you - Greek perhaps?

  (grin - nothing malicious intended/implied though, no value judgement attached)

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• Re:How do you pronounce that? (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @01:19PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 05 2018, @01:19PM (#633264) Homepage Journal

  Donations would be foolish at this point. They have a perfectly viable pool of developers who will be putting in purchase orders for their developer boards.

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