08-25-2020, 03:03 PM
I was just reading about the new ThunderX3 -- "coming soon" from Marvell. (up to) 396 threads is appealing. :-)
I was also just reading about Alibaba's new RISC-V SoC. Also not available, yet, but they're claiming performance on par with last year's amd64 chips at a fraction of the power. That will get a lot of attention. I don't think Amazon's ARM server chip can claim that. Not based on the Phoronix tests of a few months ago, anyway.
Wasn't there something in the Pine64 news channel about an interest in doing RISC-V SBCs when they become available? I know Si-FIVE has them available, though not in any real numbers, I guess; and soon Alibaba.
It's a good time to be interested in compute chips.
I was also just reading about Alibaba's new RISC-V SoC. Also not available, yet, but they're claiming performance on par with last year's amd64 chips at a fraction of the power. That will get a lot of attention. I don't think Amazon's ARM server chip can claim that. Not based on the Phoronix tests of a few months ago, anyway.
Wasn't there something in the Pine64 news channel about an interest in doing RISC-V SBCs when they become available? I know Si-FIVE has them available, though not in any real numbers, I guess; and soon Alibaba.
It's a good time to be interested in compute chips.