Live Q&A - Linux on RISC-V
Hello, I think we will see more and more silicon vendors have at least some involvement in RISC-V. Samsung has talked about how it is using RISC-V in its 5G mobile RF and AI image sensors (https://www.anandtech.com/show/15228/samsung-to-use-riscv-cores). Intel has a new RISC-V initiative (https://riscv.org/news/2022/02/intel-corporation-makes-deep-investment-in-risc-v-community-to-accelerate-innovation-in-open-computing/) as well. Renesas is a major processor manufacturer for automotive and they have announced a RISC-V SoC (https://www.renesas.com/tw/en/about/press-room/renesas-pioneers-risc-v-technology-rzfive-general-purpose-mpus-based-64-bit-risc-v-cpu-core). It remains to be seen how long it will take for RISC-V implementations to be on par with Arm or even AMD/Intel in terms of high performance for generic workloads. For now, RISC-V is really shining in embedded use cases and also specific niches like machine learning accelerators like the Esperanto ET-SoC-1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmUu-lN7D0k).
That was enlightening. Thanks.
Great talk, thank you!
We have the wrong slides :(
Should be fixed now.
Indeed! Let me fix this.
Drew,
Thank you for your talk! It sounds like RISC-V is working well for Western Digital and NVIDIA and others. Do you think we'll see even bigger companies shift to RISC-V? If not, what do you see as the main reasons that they would keeping an expensive license with Arm, for example?