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Imagination Technologies to design RISC-V cores:
Now better known for its PowerVR embedded GPUs, Imagination Technologies tried to enter the CPU market by purchasing MIPS Technologies and introducing microAptiv, interAptiv, and proAptiv cores in 2012.
It did not end up well, as the company had to sell its MIPS technology a few years later, and the MIPS architecture is now barely supported. But Imagination is now working on getting back into the CPU space by designing RISC-V cores.
[...] a May 2021 report by the Financial Times claims Imagination expects to invest up to $150m over the next two years to target a fresh push into the processor design market, specifically citing the RISC-V architecture.
Also at Tom's Hardware.
See also: QEMU 6.1 Released With RISC-V Improvements, AMD Emulation Fixes
Related: Imagination Technologies Acquired for $675 Million, MIPS to be Sold Off
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday August 27 2021, @08:46PM (4 children)
I am personally hopeful that RISC-V will attract development efforts to build chips for everything from the smallest of microcontrollers to the biggest of fire breathing servers, and everything in between.
It's not that the various chip designs will be open (I'm sure they won't be). It's that the industry might gradually standardize on something that doesn't have Intel's decades of horrible baggage. Something clean and simple. Something that the smallest implementation can be built on breadboards. (Sorry don't have link handy)
I remember back in the 80's in a Mac vs PC discussion, someone saying it would be good to have one single standard. (Meaning PC compatible) Yes, it would. But it would be better to have a really good standard. Starting with ISA. Then standard OS (Linux). And maybe a few common UIs.
I would be amused if I live to see that become something like the ultimate endpoint.
But, there are some other OSes on the horizon that could end up betting better than Linux. (And you should never begin or end a sentence with either But or And.)
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 27 2021, @08:48PM
s/betting/being/g
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Friday August 27 2021, @09:16PM
RISC-V vs. ARM will be more interesting than RISC-V vs. x86. x86 just works, whereas the ARM ecosystem is fragmented. RISC-V could replace ARM, only to face the same problems.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @05:56AM
If God said "it would be nice to have one standard life form"
If Linus had said "it would be nice to have one kernel"
Think before you puke. I want my CPUs in all flavors just like Ice Cream.
Some flavors die on introduction, some fade away, some cruse thru life just being Vanilla.
Oh you can swap God with what ever you want. Or you can get flippy about it. your choice.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by NPC-131072 on Saturday August 28 2021, @03:28PM
Or as a pixel shader. [pimaker.at]