[Arm-netbook] open risc v question:

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 6:28 PM, zap <calmstorm at posteo.de> wrote:

> Risc-V hmm... interesting. I know arm is based off of a Risc chip so
> that's why I wondered...

 yehyeh.  no RISC just means "reduced instruction set".   like "drink"
can describe anything from alcohol to water to coffee...  MIPS is a
RISC core.  ARC is a RISC core.  ARM is a RISC core.  ARM is a RISC
core.  etc. etc.

>> power budget is 2.5 watts and madhu laughed: do the math, you can get
>> 16 SMP cores into 2.5 watts :)
> Wow... that's freakin awesome.  Any idea when such a processor will be
> implemented into the eoma68 standard?

 if standard chip design is anything to go by... probably 18 months.

l.