I guess. I’m excited to start programming on the Lichee Allwinner D1 dev kit I just ordered for $27 after shipping and tax. (that my grandma offered to buy me)
riscv has still got to be a pretty useful micro architecture compared to ARM which still ought to eat more transistors and be less pleasant to program for on the ultra embedded.
alibaba is already using it for HPC so it’s got to be applicable
We’d be best converting those old instruction sets to riscv in software in most cases if you ask me. Which is probably what your fancy processor is practically already doing internally.
And I’m someone who is tended to at least be compelled to understand assembly if not write it. I’m happy to work with riscv instead.
RISC-V is based and the future. Can’t wait until the day all that CISC crap finally becomes obsolete. One day I really want to build myself a decent RISC-V based workstation that uses little wattage and doesn’t turn into a literal space heater whenever I run computationally intense programs, unlike the x86 monster I have currently on my desk. I actually already have a really decent spare ATX case with PSU around that I’m keeping for this purpose. All I’m waiting for is for a decent and affordable board to come up.
That doesn’t change that riscv is still generally better if you care about efficiency and cost.
x86 needs to do all sorts of crap to stay compliant and compatible. It’s done at the die level.
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I guess. I’m excited to start programming on the Lichee Allwinner D1 dev kit I just ordered for $27 after shipping and tax. (that my grandma offered to buy me)
riscv has still got to be a pretty useful micro architecture compared to ARM which still ought to eat more transistors and be less pleasant to program for on the ultra embedded.
alibaba is already using it for HPC so it’s got to be applicable
do you have a link to alibaba using ARM?
No. Alibaba is using riscv. (and ARM apparently) https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/6413/alibaba-open-source-xuantie-risc-v-cores-introduces-in-house-armv9-server-chip/
My Allwinner D1 implements a XuanTie C906 core.
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We’d be best converting those old instruction sets to riscv in software in most cases if you ask me. Which is probably what your fancy processor is practically already doing internally.
And I’m someone who is tended to at least be compelled to understand assembly if not write it. I’m happy to work with riscv instead.
RISC-V is based and the future. Can’t wait until the day all that CISC crap finally becomes obsolete. One day I really want to build myself a decent RISC-V based workstation that uses little wattage and doesn’t turn into a literal space heater whenever I run computationally intense programs, unlike the x86 monster I have currently on my desk. I actually already have a really decent spare ATX case with PSU around that I’m keeping for this purpose. All I’m waiting for is for a decent and affordable board to come up.
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that’d still be very expensive and useless for a workstation since you couldn’t even pool the RAM
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I’m wanting to see if I can port SerenityOS and other things also.
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