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Indian Government Designs Five RISC-V Processors

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 07 2022, @10:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-a-RISC dept.

takyon writes:

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.

Vega Microprocessors

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Tuesday February 08 2022, @01:44AM (2 children)

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday February 08 2022, @01:44AM (#1219590)

    Is there any reason to doubt that given time there WILL be desktop Linux RISC V processors? And server class processors?

    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)

    by NateMich (6662) on Tuesday February 08 2022, @02:44AM (#1219603)

    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

      by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday February 08 2022, @04:04AM (#1219622)

      I thought SiFive were finished with that board already and decided to move on to something else?

      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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