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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.

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