Comment by tw1984
22 days ago
> There is (so far) nothing 'open' about RISC-V.
with the majority players being Chinese vendors (those you can buy, not including those building RISC-V for their own in-house applications), RISC-V is far less open than ARM or x64.
expecting openness from Chinese vendors is like trying to hook up with some virgin bar girls in your favourite gogo bar in Bangkok.
Get your virgin bar girls here…
https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
are you joking?
if you search their public media releases, they mentioned that their cores are used by some imaginary vendors for undisclosed platforms. just go and check how CLOSE those junks are. product names and models are always omitted, it is always "certain vendor", "one AI card", no spec no details whatsoever...
searching their names on taobao.com returns 0 hit, searching their names on the largest Chinese second hand platform returns 0 hit. 4 years after they started doing their great open project, you can't even buy one from the OPEN market! that is VERY OPEN to me.
Holy swerving goal-posts Batman.
Ok fine. Here is a link to a completely open design:
https://github.com/tenstorrent/riscv-ocelot
And here is a high-performance evolution of it that you can license. They would be happy to take your check today. https://tenstorrent.com/ip/risc-v-cpu
Silicon will be available in a few months.
And just for you, it is not Chinese.