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“When enough leaders step in, the pack follows. “Red Hat announced that they have a developer preview of REL for RISC-V,” says Gallo. “Fedora is available for RISC-V. Last January, at FOSDEM in Europe, Canonical disclosed that they are building plans to support the RVA23 profile with Ubuntu. The message is that RISC-V is ready for application processors and for standard operating systems.”
Significant investments are being made. “Another interesting project in Europe is the DARE project,” says Lapides. “That is injecting 260 million to 280 million Euros over the next five years. The three key vendors are each building chiplets, not just processor IP. One is a general-purpose CPU, one is a vector accelerator, and one is an AI accelerator. Those chiplets will be integrated. RISC-V with a new chiplet architecture is interesting.”
Conclusions
RISC-V may not be the perfect solution for many applications, especially those related to AI, but it could provide an evolutionary path. In addition, there is nothing else on the horizon that can provide a better alternative.
Very few revolutions have succeeded in the semiconductor industry. By having an open, and growing, community of people who rapidly evolve the definition of what they need today, what they think they might need tomorrow, and with a view to the horizon, they may be able to get to where they ultimately need to be without taking on too much risk. By taking small steps, the ecosystem can keep up, and steady progress is made.”
Source: https://semiengineering.com/risc-vs-increasing-influence/
Significant investments are being made. “Another interesting project in Europe is the DARE project,” says Lapides. “That is injecting 260 million to 280 million Euros over the next five years. The three key vendors are each building chiplets, not just processor IP. One is a general-purpose CPU, one is a vector accelerator, and one is an AI accelerator. Those chiplets will be integrated. RISC-V with a new chiplet architecture is interesting.”
Conclusions
RISC-V may not be the perfect solution for many applications, especially those related to AI, but it could provide an evolutionary path. In addition, there is nothing else on the horizon that can provide a better alternative.
Very few revolutions have succeeded in the semiconductor industry. By having an open, and growing, community of people who rapidly evolve the definition of what they need today, what they think they might need tomorrow, and with a view to the horizon, they may be able to get to where they ultimately need to be without taking on too much risk. By taking small steps, the ecosystem can keep up, and steady progress is made.”
Source: https://semiengineering.com/risc-vs-increasing-influence/