Ex-Intel executives raise $21.5 million for RISC-V chip startup
AheadComputing plans to use the funds to design and develop CPU technology that aims to solve some of the performance issues that have arisen around #AI
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ex-intel-executives-raise-215-million-risc-v-chip-startup-2025-02-19/
#HPC
AheadComputing plans to use the funds to design and develop CPU technology that aims to solve some of the performance issues that have arisen around #AI
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ex-intel-executives-raise-215-million-risc-v-chip-startup-2025-02-19/
#HPC
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Still I wish them well, maybe they will be the exception in the RISC-V world
https://youtu.be/_VQp2EpJYEs
But still not at the level of a current Raspberry Pi let alone a mainstream processor for Apple, AMD or Intel
Basically there is lots of hype but little in the way of useful hardware
There are people developing on a 64-core RISC-V machine, so that's way past a Raspberry Pi.
Because of sanctions against Sophgo, they cancelled their affordable RISC-V system with 16 cores.
https://youtu.be/P_fApiLERLI
It was benchmarked against AMD and Intel processors from 2018
The x64 chips were 4 to 8 times faster than RISC-V
So RISC-V is nowhere close to being ready for mainstream use
Again, if it wasn't for the sanctions, more RISC-V chips would have been available. The designs are ready, now the permission to manufacture them.
RISC-V has been claiming to be competitive “real soon now” for at least 5 years and still is nowhere close to offering decent performance
So yes not enough progress