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SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 05 2018, @03:16AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @06:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @06:38PM (#633374)

    In the days of the Intel Pentium, it was never the Ghz that mattered, because the notion of even talking about Ghz in the first place was years away.

    The Mhz, otoh...I had a 133 MHz machine, that thing was sweet. Use it to pivot around the ol' high school firewall and get on IRC in class.