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India goes RISC-V with VEGA processors
One of the main advantages of RISC-V architecture is that it is open, so any organization with the right skills can develop its own cores, and India's government has taken up this opportunity with the Microprocessor Development Programme (MDP) helping develop VEGA RISC-V cores locally.
Thanks to funding by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) managed to design five RISC-V processors ranging from a single-core 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller-class processor to a Linux capable quad-core 64-bit out-of-order processor.
[...] We should not expect a processor for desktop Linux anytime soon, as AS4161 [the 64-bit quad-core] mostly targets storage and networking applications.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday February 07 2022, @10:40PM (7 children)
Back in 1999, just be patient for open source to gain momentum.
Just be patient for the Linux OS to gain momentum.
Now all major corporations embrace open source and Linux -- including Microsoft among them.
Is there any reason to doubt that given time there WILL be desktop Linux RISC V processors? And server class processors?
Or are we to believe that this simply will never happen, so we can just safely ignore the 'distraction' of RISC V.
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 takyon on Tuesday February 08 2022, @12:53AM
We have your RISC-V right here [intc.com].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08 2022, @01:22AM
There are already desktop-class RISC-V chips and boards and plenty of MCUs on the market. If it weren't for the chip shortage, you would be able to buy them, too!
(Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Tuesday February 08 2022, @01:44AM (2 children)
SiFive's HiFive Unmatched [crowdsupply.com] is shipping in 3 days. The early release was benchmarked here [phoronix.com] and there's folks on youtube running doom and browsing on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqekGqREf9k [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrJi7tX0jE8 [youtube.com]
Cost-performance is obviously not there yet but it's borderline-viable RISC-V linux desktop that's available on the market so... Yeah. No reason whatsoever.
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(Score: 2) by NateMich on Tuesday February 08 2022, @02:44AM (1 child)
I thought SiFive were finished with that board already and decided to move on to something else?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Tuesday February 08 2022, @04:04AM
That's what I've read and I did notice Mouser run out of stock... But it seems crowdsupply are still selling them?
"Orders placed now ship Feb 11, 2022."
( https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unmatched [crowdsupply.com] )
Anyhow, even if they too exhausted their stock, "given time there WILL be desktop Linux RISC V processors?" was asked and answered half a year ago when they shipped. As for the future, Horse Creek p550 should be about ready to ship, provided the supply chain shortages won't get in the way...
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday February 08 2022, @02:19PM (1 child)
And thus it was ever the case for RISC-V. Anything around it falls into one of three classes:
There's also a fourth semi-class, buggy hardware, buggy software, no documentation, and patched kernel binaries you have to download from some server in Shenzhen to get it working.
I'm saying that as someone who's developed for RISC-V. There still isn't anything out there that comes close to any old crappy secondhand Pi you found on eBay for ten dollars.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 08 2022, @03:40PM
That reminds me. Any news on if Blue Origin will have a Fright Certified BE-4 engine?
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious