Recent content by cambrown

RISC-V will not be a player for a while. There will be incremental gains, just as there were with ARM. However, its ecosystem is not mature enough for full adoption. SiFive just laid off a ton of people, and are switching to a customized core-based business model it would seem. Definitely good...

They want to compete in the laptop space with Apple, quite possibly. There is another case to be made for AI acceleration on ARM since it's so much less power consumptive than x86 at equivalent implementation scales. Also, having better perf/watt means greater capacity for multicore designs...