China is doubling down on the RISC-V architecture.
  • jaxxed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    This could be great news. RISC5 could be great for diversity in the processor space. I at will take investment on the scale that only a national investment like China can invest to get it to compete.

    Does China have the Fab capability to build these, or do they need foreign production?

    • zlatko@programming.devEnglish
      61·
      8 months ago

      They have been making their own x86 knock-offs for a while now, but not at the same scale as the “regular” - i.e. they’d been doing it at 14nm or so, so less efficient.

      I don’t know if they have better fab process since then, and for how big a scale.

      • jaxxed@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        Their x86 fabs are producing a 5 yr old Intel node, and with unknown defect rate. This is about getting down to the modern node size to (eventually) to get competitive with the two major ARM nodes.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Any benchmarks? Seems like it bundles NN acceleration that competes with GPUs, but benchmarks/price matters.

    best i got

    RIVAI claims that the Lingyu processor’s computational performance rivals that of major international server chips from Intel and AMD.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    Fine, they’ve made a processor, but until I have an idea of how well tested and secure it is, I’m not running anything on it. I don’t mean in a “Oh China, scary!” way but just because it’s an unknown brand with no track record.

    Making something that works most of the time is one thing. Making something bulletproof is another.

    …and they’re positioning this for servers.