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25% of what?
1/4 of 100% of what?
I've seen zero RISC devices in the wild, and the phrasing here wants me to think I should have by now.
This is about datacenters and HPC, hence the reference to Meta.
I’ve seen zero RISC devices in the wild
Ever seen an Nvidia GPU? They've been using them for years. One estimate is they shipped 1 billion cores in 2024.
Not as end user programmable chips of course, but the "end user devices" market is only a small part of the total industry.
Maybe 25% of the RISC-V market? Like, they’re now meeting 1/4 of the demand?
Qualcomm and Meta? Two technology companies that I want zero products from.
One is a patent troll and the other is an inept corporation that is directly instrumental is the destruction of society.
Mostly Qualcomm's cpus for automotive and enterprise servers and Meta's (Facebook) custom AI chips.
For consumer products is still an hobbist with Linux exclusive.
SteamDeck 2 will still have an ARM.
SteamDeck 2 will still have an ARM.
Of what little I know, ARM core designs should be relatively easy to repurpose for RISC-V ISA, once the set of extensions normally used becomes certain. Most of the work being in decoders.
So it just comes down to a still new and not entirely stable ISA. Like with network protocols.
This is AI generated garbage with no sources.
I think it's interesting that the phrase "ARM-free" roadmap is being used. I had no idea there had been so much market penetration of RISC-V already
I don't think it's the consumer market because I've seen basically nothing with that system architecture. Actually that's not true I know of one product that uses RISC-V, and that is a development board that you can drop into a Framework laptop chassis. Which is the development purposes only in barely works.
I have not seen anything marketed as just a general device that uses RISC-V chips.
What incentives are there for companies like meta here?
Is it going to be proprietary drivers for open chip designs?
I feel like its a similar decision to why companies adopted linux over enterprise unix's. Its kind of interesting how decentralized/open solutions are mostly used by companies versus the public.
There are plenty nowadays from what I remember.
TIL! Had no idea there was existing alternatives to architecture status quo! Very cool work here
I wouldn't get too excited just yet. Currently basically nothing runs on it, even most Linux kernels don't support it. I'm sure that will change in the future when CPUs become available.
I never got the hype from Open source supporters about RISC-V. Its a permissive license so any consumer use will end up with companies EEE into there own product line (Could you then patent that architecture?). Weirdly I feel like the ARM model where a central company licenses the chipset out to many companies is kind of better as atleast you get competition between chip designers. Main benefit here is companies who don't have to pay licenses for the architecture
