Even though I see no reason to vote you down, there are a lot of reasons not to vote you up.
The message from WD is very good news for RISC-V. But to make the claim that it overthrows
all other architectures from the throne is not only a bit daring. With this logic, ARM should have crashed Intel a long time ago. There will always be a market for different architectures.
You have also misspelled RISC-V, indicating that you are not really aware of the market and architecture.
>ut to make the claim that it overthrows all other architectures from the throne is not only a bit daring
It is always fascinating how much people do extrapolate when the want to believe something. It is going to overthrow and it is overthrown is two quite different thing if you can think critically.
>You have also misspelled RISC-V, indicating that you are not really aware of the market and architecture
Again. This just like you other analysis, which is based on flawed logic and not being intelligent enough.
Rest assured I have wrote enough Chisel, and I would bet I am more familiar about interenal of most architecture than most people in topic (since my grad school work is focused on outputing chisel via LLVM).
One extra lesson for you: dont extrapolate and judge based on appearance. Look at what they are saying deep down.
And don’t based your judgement on spelling, particularly in unofficial context. Some people only have time to comment when they ar in bus or something.
I have tried to explain to you why your message might have been down voted. Nothing else. If I interpret your message that way, others will do the same.
Free tip: If you don't want to be downvoted for your comment (#3) defending your comment (#1), don't say in comment #3 about the person who wrote comment #2 that their analysis was based on not being intelligent enough. That's a personal attack, and is absolutely downvote-worthy.
Yeah exactly. I would say this is very informative comment but sadly gets downvoted:
>>Smaller designs, easier to license designs, simpler and more attractive ISA extension mechanisms, no royalties, no license negotiation periods, no incremental cost to adding more cores of different designs.
Because they can't handle the fact that you're right. RISC-V is coming for all of them. I like your phrasing too, it's accurate but I guess people think it's more pretentious. Only time will tell for sure.
>> There's a lot of wishful thinking involved in this.
Yeah I agree, but the list of giant companies involved in the wishing is what makes it seem like more than a pipe dream. Just think how much revenue ARM will lose when WD, nVidia, Samsung and others all switch to RISC-V in their embedded devices.
>> A RISC-V server or desktop processor would have to be created essentially from scratch.
I'd love to see AMD or Intel build a chip on the RISC-V instruction set and use all their existing infrastructure around that. I would not be surprised it they could achieve higher benchmark performance than their x86 offerings. For someone else to achieve the same level of performance will take a while, but there are multiple groups working on it.
Because ARM laptops have been shipping for years, while there isn't even a single RISC-V SoC out there that could even hypothetically be used in a laptop.
And this is very smart move by WD to jump into Risk-V wagon.
Update: Why do people downvote? I honestly don’t understand.