On 12 September 2018 at 10:46, Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 08:09:46 UTC, Joakim wrote: >> >> I contacted one of the few companies putting out RISC-V dev boards, >> Sifive, a couple weeks ago with the suggestion of making available a paid >> RISC-V VPS, and one of their field engineers got back to me last week with a >> note that they're looking into it. >> >> I think their model of having an open ISA with proprietary extensions will >> inevitably win out for hardware, just as a similar model has basically won >> already for software, but that doesn't mean that RISC-V will be the one to >> do it. Someone else might execute that model better. > > > I could not agree more - look at Parallella! Their model is the same yet it > ultimately failed (unfortunately as I think Exynos is seriously good stuff)! > :(
I only ever saw Parallella used in the context of a CPU where you offload computation onto, rather than something your system runs directly on-top of. For this, I assumed their target audience was mainly places that currently use expensive GPUs.
