Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs

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• whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Performing sufficiently for cheap production cost, they’d be a low RISC high reward investment.

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  • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    low RISC high reward

    I hate you

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    • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s ok. So do I.

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  • MichaelTen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol yes.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    5 isn’t low, though. That’s a full Pentium of risc.

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• istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More competition in the chip space is always good

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• Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No gonna lie, this is really cool. While the efficiency isn’t great, for a first attempt these are surprisingly decent specs for what is effectively a mobile cpu. Their server level ones also are pretty decent, and while they aren’t really a match for the newest zen architecture, they are also a first attempt on an architecture that isn’t x86 or arm (some mix of risc v and mips).

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• halva@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  damn that’s a rare China W

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• derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s this back story about the “LoongArch instruction system, a RISC ISA that blends ideas from MIPS and RISC-V”. The article says it is MIPS-compatible and even runs the same Linux code [Loongson’s] old MIPS-based CPUs did. Why not just use RISC-V? MIPS is licensed from the USA. I guess they have a lot of legacy people at Loongson.

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• gaifux@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LOONGSON

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are ya winning, LOONGSON?

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  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Long long man has a son??

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• mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why Occident doesn’t do the same ?? RISC-V is a libre hardware movement created and moved by many Occident Universities and yet we have few RISC-V in the market.

  Are we too much stagnated with corporation products or what?

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  • JayDee@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is often a very limited market for underperforming hardware, which is how RISC-V chips will be starting out. There is a large amount of accumulated knowledge about, and workflow to accommodate, already established ISAs.

    Due to most companies being publicly traded, taking risks is much less common, since a drop in profits could see a massive portion of the company’s funds get pulled, or more likely the CEO being yanked by the board. So they play it safe and choose already established architectures.

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because as a business, it doesn’t make sense in occident. They will be much worse in price to performance, and probably forget to run windows or other software.

    From a business sense, it mostly makes sense of you think being dependent on “traditional” is a risk in a way or another.

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  • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait until RISC-V starts being included in every Chinese EV.

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