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Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

They've been shipping them in every GPU for years.

These things are now managed by 10 to 40 custom RISC-V cores developed by Nvidia, depending on chip complexity. Nvidia started to replace its proprietary microcontrollers with RISC-V-based microcontroller cores in 2015, and by now, virtually all of its MCU cores are RISC-V-based, according to an Nvidia slide demonstrated at the RISC-V Summit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

same for AMD graphics since 2019. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel were doing the same with Arc too, though I haven't looked into that yet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Small RISC-V cores are weirdly all over the place. I think NXP and some others have a RISC-V core inside some of their ARM cores as their security coprocessors and other peripherals. The architecture is getting around it’s just not hitting much toward the application processor yet. It’s getting there but running a full on PC is such a complex task over micros or special purpose devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely. They've been getting really popular in wearables (particularly from Chinese brands).

Several SBC vendors are including rv clusters in ARM based SoCs (which I believe is partially related to what you mentioned) for development purposes.

I even have a little rv powered ssoldering iron 😊

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