• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      RISC-V is just about at pi3 levels of performance so it’s not really that good for end user stuff yet. Alibaba launched a new core recently that might improve things though.

      On their servers? possibly. RISC-V is competitive when you stuff a bunch of cores into it and make it do basic server tasks that haven’t gotten more complex over the years. And in AI, you may just need a cheap CPU to orchestrate your GPUs/NPUs so anything will work there.

      I think we’ll see m1+ levels of desktop performance on RISCV within the next 4 years though. trump will do wonders for the Chinese semiconductor industry.

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        I think we’ll see m1+ levels of desktop performance on RISCV within the next 4 years though. trump will do wonders for the Chinese semiconductor industry

        I hope so, that would e awesome!

        On their servers? possibly. RISC-V is competitive when you stuff a bunch of cores into it and make it do basic server tasks that haven’t gotten more complex over the years. And in AI, you may just need a cheap CPU to orchestrate your GPUs/NPUs so anything will work there.

        I think this is the approach Tenstorrent is taking with their AI accelerators, but I’m not entirely clear on how much of the processing is done in RISC-V and how much is custom silicon. But, as a reletively inexpensive PCIe card, it seems pretty interesting

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        Yeah, pi3 isn’t quite there yet to drive a laptop. I expect RISCV to mature rapidly as well. There’s going to be a ton of money poured into it, and it’s always easier to do things the second time around. Apple has done a lot of the hard work designing the architecture o M series chips, and I imagine a lot of it will inspire RISCV designs now. This project in particular seems pretty promising as it specifically aims to deliver high performance designs https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan