Alibaba promises server-class RISC-V processor in 2024

a_vanderbilt · on March 21, 2024

More architectures are feasible with the way modern open-source makes software available. Breaking up the hegemony of x86 in the data center is a good thing.

camel-cdr · on March 21, 2024

>Details of the chip were not discussed

Except for the performance (15 SPECint2k6/GHz) and the extensions (RVA24, bold claim btw).

See: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/687667375

photonbeam · on March 21, 2024

Sure hope it has rvv 1.0

camel-cdr · on March 21, 2024

It does: https://pic1.zhimg.com/80/v2-b1d07335b091fe5d273f95e889ff239...

ivell · on March 21, 2024

No RISC no fun

lagniappe · on March 21, 2024

RISC is good

cherryteastain · on March 21, 2024

Sanctions incoming...

brucehoult · on March 21, 2024

?

Sanctions can prevent US tech from being exported to China. They can't do a thing about home-grown tech.

cherryteastain · on March 22, 2024

Not quite. US can e.g. sanction Alibaba such that TSMC/Samsung is not allowed to fab Alibaba's chips.

jimmydoe · on March 22, 2024

Sanction may not be the right term but I'm there's a way to punish them for being Chinese and possibly being sold to Iran, Russian or Palestine at some point...