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'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC

www.techradar.com 'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC

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'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC

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5d ago

'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC

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An open source CPU, somewhat competitive with good ARM and x86 cores would be a groundbreaking achievement.
- Indeed, and if it gets there then I imagine it will start outpacing proprietary architectures because the whole world will be contributing to it.

Exciting times for risc v. Maybe we will have a workstation class CPU that isn't reliant on closed architectures some day.

I wonder what impact a truly high end CPU being open would have on the fab industry.
Right now, there's a lot of manufacturing secret sauce; if you took an Intel design, it would require significant rework to perform well on Samsung or TSMC process.
Fab owners would have a vested competitive interest to customize the design to perform better on their tooling.
Conversely, buyers might develop a renewed interest in second-sourcing-- if you can take your chip to any fab, you have more control over your supply chain.

This is truly the century of open source! I'm all in into this