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Perfect, thanks. Slides like this one were exactly the sort of thing I was looking for: http://i.imgur.com/E42obHv.png

I do understand that's just one specific implementation (RISCV BOOM), but it does give a little clarity on what level of performance that team is targeting.

Edit: Regarding the range of microcontroller to fast 64 bit...that's exactly what I'm trying to understand, mapping what's possible to what's actually being worked on. Roughly, when a production ready RISC-V 64 bit implementation might happen, and how it would compare to ARM/Intel. It's somewhat difficult to tell if the first in the "fast 64 bit" would be more comparable to a Raspberry PI in performance, or more comparable to a very low end Intel x86 processor.

So, yes, I get that the ISA doesn't dictate that, but the current groups working on RISC-V implementation does...and it's not clear to me who they all are, what their performance target is, and when they might produce something.




It really depends on the implementation, the range will be from microcontroller up to fast 64bit chips. There is also talk of 128bit.




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