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by dmitrygr 20 days ago
When the top perf per watt or perf per MHz machine is RISCV, we'll talk. Until then, lol.
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Many here wish for the non IP-locked RISC-V to get performant micro-achitectures for embedded/server/desktop/mobile that on the latest silicon process (without that, you can have a very good micro-architecture, that won't probably make the difference).

If some RISC-V high performance CPU manufacturers are being bought by big hardware actors: either they are scared of its competition and want to scrap it or they want to be part of RISC-V.

False dichotomy. They are also quite possibly aqui-hires which then put the good engineers unto actually useful projects.
This is another way to say they are scared ofe competition and want to scrap them.
Self-evidently, you therefore won't be the person building this machine.
Nope. I don’t want to work on systems that self-handicap in dumb and predictable ways. Mistakes happen. But mistakes that were preventable and knowable at design time … they are inexcusable, and RISCV is chock-full of those.
I disagree.