“Bao Yungang, a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced the core of the domestic open source high-performance RISC-V processor- Xiangshan.”
The key words here are “Open Source” - IF the Xiangshan proves to be a capable processor, many in the Linux community are going to prefer it to the offerings of Intel/SiFive.
War of the processors / Battle of open source vs proprietary / War of geopolitics… Interesting times.
Yeah, I’m incredibly excited to see some open source hardware being developed.
Okay, so…
The article says that the Yanqi Lake processor is equivalent to ARM’s A72 or A73 - so that’s equivalent to a Raspberry Pi 4…
And Intel’s i9 was their top offering from 2018…
It would seem that both these processors are well-placed in terms of their capabilities.
Yeah, they’re a few years behind bleeding edge, but perfectly fine for vast majority of use cases.
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Nice, finally some competition for Intel and AMD. I’d love them to create some more powerful designs based on this.
