It’s not at all surprising that China is moving towards RISC-V, but we still have to see mainstream RISC-V solutions that can come even close to existing ARM and x86 solutions.
“Even if a RISC-V solution priced at 10 million yuan might only reach about 30% of the level of NVIDIA or Huawei, buying three sets means the overall cost might still be lower,” he said during the event. “I think this is a breakthrough point.”
This seems more like an aspirational statement and I am not sure how a RISC-V CPU would compete with Nvidia in enterprise GPUs (the ARM CPUs developed/used by Nvidia for such solutions are arguably a small part of the total cost of the solution).
This is good for the entire world. A new architecture getting support from large players to assist in finally wiping out the x86 chips.
What’s inherently good about “wiping out x86 chips?” Why does this even matter?
It’s inherently good that an open source architecture will be come dominant. Also, Apple has already demonstrated with its M series chip that RISC is a superior architecture for horizontal scaling. The advantage comes from the fact that RISC instructions are all the same size, meaning that you can load up a batch of instruction look for dependencies, and then execute any independent instructions in parallel. CISC is fundamentally at odds with this due to variable instruction size.
