Pandemic distancing borders in the surreal right now, kids returning to school while staying at home.
Strange times, but as always I get a lot out of your Hot Chips coverage, even though you are unlikely to be able to insert any wafers into your mouth this year.
That is the name that Alibaba gave to their own custom instruction extension. The slide around "6:14PM EDT" kind of gives a brief overview. They basically added custom instructions to accelerate certain functions.
OK, so point is it's an Alibaba extension, not a "standard" RISC-V extension. Oh RISC-V, you and your crazy extensions. It's hard to imagine this will play out well long term...
So do we validate these as good choices (ie they should have been in the base spec!) if other people copy them? Or are they (C) Alibaba so one step on the way to Balkanization?
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eSyr - Monday, August 17, 2020 - link
Suddenly, C-SKY.watersb - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - link
Pandemic distancing borders in the surreal right now, kids returning to school while staying at home.Strange times, but as always I get a lot out of your Hot Chips coverage, even though you are unlikely to be able to insert any wafers into your mouth this year.
Thanks!
name99 - Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - link
What is "RISC-V Turbo"? The web shows nothing useful.MetalPenguin - Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - link
That is the name that Alibaba gave to their own custom instruction extension. The slide around "6:14PM EDT" kind of gives a brief overview. They basically added custom instructions to accelerate certain functions.name99 - Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - link
OK, so point is it's an Alibaba extension, not a "standard" RISC-V extension.Oh RISC-V, you and your crazy extensions. It's hard to imagine this will play out well long term...
So do we validate these as good choices (ie they should have been in the base spec!) if other people copy them? Or are they (C) Alibaba so one step on the way to Balkanization?
green.holden - Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - link
300 GFLOPS of FP16 and 150 of FP32.That's got to be enough for a basic GPU.