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Why is everything RISC-V some low power device, I want a workstation with PCIe 5.0 powered by RISC-V.
Cause it’s immature and low power devices are easier
That makes sense.
milk-v is going to release a pretty powerful system, iirc i read it will be released in about 10 months, ventana also reportedly will release a server cpu in 2024.
Given that sifive just effectively fired everyone, this might fall flat.
That’s yet another example of why you should not believe everything you read online, see this .
That’s the sort of thing I am interested in seeing, thanks! :)
I think that’s the whole point of all risc - it saves power over cisc but may take longer to compute some tasks.
That’d be why things like phones with limited batteries often prefer risc.
Risc-v is still 50% slower than an unisoc SOC.
RISC-V is advancing pretty quickly. I imagine we’ll see desktop class CPUs within a decade.
It takes time, as it all is under heavy development. Just since very recently there are risc v sbc available that can run linux - before it was pretty much microcontrollers only. Be patient :)
That’s promising at least :)
There is the 64 core, 32-128GB DDR4 Milk-V Pioneer, but it uses PCIe 4.0
Even once the kinks are worked out, the primary market for RISC-V will be low-end. It’s a FOSS (FOSH?) upgrade path from 8-bit and 16-bit ISAs.
There will be no reason for embedded systems to use ARM.
Does the trackpoint work like an old IBM thinkpad? If so this would be a really neat computer.
It’s called a nipple. And yes.
I’ve always called it the clit
We call it the clito in France, I have one on my Lenovo keyboard
Do you have one? The Thinkpad trackpoint was great but no other company that put a “nub/nipple” on their laptops was as good. I think IBM put a lot of effort into that device and whatever knockoffs Dell, HP etc were using were clumsy and uncomfortable in comparison.
Are netbooks making a comeback?
With RISC-V and ARM I hope so. In the past I feel like they were too bloated and it made them feel worse than a tablet or a laptop.
Man, I hope. I haven’t had as much fun on a computer as I did with my eepc701.
Loved my netbook back in the day. put major hours into roblox on that bih
The Pad 4A is a bit more interesting to me. 1280x800 is really awful in 2023. But the pad 4A has a 10" 1920x1200 display which would be so much nicer in a small form factor laptop.
I use a 1280x800 on my steamdeck and honestly its fine for 90% of stuff as long as it can scale properly. Am I the only person who ran a 720p monitor back when people were just getting into 4k?
I ran 1280x800 and 1366x768 for years and hated it. After the retina MBP came out and embarrassed everyone I vowed I’d never go back.
1080p is the minimum I’ll do at this point for a modern device.
Even 1080p is frustrating for many things now.
Hmmm I wonder if it’s possible to hack together that tiny keyboard together with a Steam Deck…
Does RISC-V have security benefits since it is open source? Is it easier to detect hardware backdoors if it is used instead of x86 or ARM?
I think the CPU chips themselves are closed source but the architecture is open under MIT so this means anyone can close them
RISC-V instruction set (ISA) is open source. But the actual implementation (microarchitecture) has no such obligations. And among the implementations that can run Linux, none (that I know) are open source designs.
With regards to hardware backdoors - no, closed source RISC-V implementations are not easier than x86 or ARM to audit for security.
Any estimation on the battery life?
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
