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Your statement that "RISC-V in 2024 is slow" gets followed by a crazy sequitur that this will continue to be the case for a long time.

Ventana announced their second-gen Veyron 2 core at the beginning of this year and they are releasing a 192-core 4nm chip using it in 2025. They claim Veyron 2 is an 8-wide decoder with a uop cache allowing up to 15-wide issue and a 512-bit vector unit too. In raw numbers, they claim SpecInt per chip is significantly higher than an EPYC 9754 (Zen4) with the same TDP.

We can argue about what things will look like after it launches, but it certainly crushes the idea that RISC-V isn't going to be competing with ARM any time soon.




In my article I only say that it is currently slow and that there are various initiatives to make it fast and I am hopeful for the future.


The article ignores IP available for licensing, which is what is relevant in the context.

SoC designers choose from existing IP blocks, not from existing physical chips.




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