← Back to context Comment by snvzz 1 year ago 10 years from where?The base specifications in RISC-V were only ratified in 2019. 8 comments snvzz Reply fidotron 1 year ago The first RISC-V chip was taped out in 2011.Source: https://riscv.org/about/#history snvzz 1 year ago And the RISC paper[0] was published in 1980.Both are milestones that paved the way to RISC-V's base spec ratification in 2019.Incidentally, the Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old.0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/641914.641917 fidotron 1 year ago So the ratification of a spec that will enable high performance implementation would be another 4.54 billion years after 2019?It's actually worse than that, because until it's done there's no guarantee it will ever get there. 5 replies →
fidotron 1 year ago The first RISC-V chip was taped out in 2011.Source: https://riscv.org/about/#history snvzz 1 year ago And the RISC paper[0] was published in 1980.Both are milestones that paved the way to RISC-V's base spec ratification in 2019.Incidentally, the Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old.0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/641914.641917 fidotron 1 year ago So the ratification of a spec that will enable high performance implementation would be another 4.54 billion years after 2019?It's actually worse than that, because until it's done there's no guarantee it will ever get there. 5 replies →
snvzz 1 year ago And the RISC paper[0] was published in 1980.Both are milestones that paved the way to RISC-V's base spec ratification in 2019.Incidentally, the Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old.0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/641914.641917 fidotron 1 year ago So the ratification of a spec that will enable high performance implementation would be another 4.54 billion years after 2019?It's actually worse than that, because until it's done there's no guarantee it will ever get there. 5 replies →
fidotron 1 year ago So the ratification of a spec that will enable high performance implementation would be another 4.54 billion years after 2019?It's actually worse than that, because until it's done there's no guarantee it will ever get there. 5 replies →
The first RISC-V chip was taped out in 2011.
Source: https://riscv.org/about/#history
And the RISC paper[0] was published in 1980.
Both are milestones that paved the way to RISC-V's base spec ratification in 2019.
Incidentally, the Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old.
0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/641914.641917
So the ratification of a spec that will enable high performance implementation would be another 4.54 billion years after 2019?
It's actually worse than that, because until it's done there's no guarantee it will ever get there.
5 replies →