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<div style="font-family:monospace"> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:monospace;">Intel, SiFive Demo High-Performance RISC-V on Intel 4 - </span><span style="font-family:monospace;"><a href="https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7277/intel-sifive-demo-high-performance-risc-v-horse-creek-dev-platform-on-intel-4-process/">https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7277/intel-sifive-demo-high-performance-risc-v-horse-creek-dev-platform-on-intel-4-process/</a></span></span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:monospace;">Discussion on Hacker News: </span><span style="font-family:monospace;"><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33129355">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33129355</a></span></span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:monospace;">On top of all the other promise apparent with this work Intel and SiFive are making the world's first chips with intention: "</span><span style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="font-family:"open sans", serif;"><span style="color:#444444;">The chip intends to also demonstrate the interoperability of 3rd-party controllers and IPs along with Intel’s own hard IP PHYs.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:monospace;">" :-)</span></span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:monospace;">Do not be fooled by the 2.2 gig speed. These chips may have </span><span style="font-family:monospace;">smoking</span><span style="font-family:monospace;"> high performance with very low power. And maybe chiplets</span> will get on their roadmap?</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:monospace;">Around 1982 Intel screwed me and my workmates by telling us a lie about their delivery of 80186 chips to our RTP startup Network Products, Inc. We had to redesign/reimplement our next gen multiprocessor product line with Moto 68k chips: a painful change for hardware dev but a soul-smashing grind for software. Even with structured programming macros the assembly language was a total pain, but we realized that the multiple processors meant we could cut over to C and by virtue of that the product made it out the door following acquisition by Penril (after I left). Another pain for me was the other half of our software dev group, Steve Schleimer being fired without me being consulted. I had to hire three people to replace him and the third guy, Eric Hamilton was so seriously good I had the space to get out of there and on to the next startup</span>, Encore Computer Corporation. Encore eventually fractured into three parts: one bought by Sun, a bunch of folks who went to Citrix and a caretaker company for existing contracts IIRC.</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:monospace;">I hope Intel's </span><span style="font-family:monospace;">RISC-V</span><span style="font-family:monospace;"> partnerships kick butt and take names</span>, most especially the American ones.</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">It's just plain weird that the RP Foundation would turn off the oxygen to their hobby market. That may make an interesting story some day.</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">In the meantime I wonder how soon we can buy a Horse Creek board?</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:monospace;">Pete</span></span>
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