Whilst some open source implementations exist, RISC-V is not open source. It’s an open standard. i.e. there’s no license fee to implement it.

This technology requires finance. You can’t train a model without millions of dollars.

If the money goes the technology is dead until the cost of the training machines comes down a few orders of magnitude.

As you say, a stutter makes getting the words out difficult. It doesn’t make you mix up world leaders.

I’m voting Joe because he is still the only qualified candidate for the job.

There’s a couple of hundred million other qualified candidates in the US. If you’re looking for politicial experience, there’s several hundred in Washington alone.

Dems have totally failed to bring through the next two or three generations of candidates. That the party feels that he’s their only choice is shameful.

The AI numbers are pretty solid. Papers published on Hugging face list training times and platform and convert that into CO2. Those will be full load for weeks/months across arrays of GPUs.

In this case, I don’t see why you’d need that kind of hardware for this application. You might be right that it’s not running at maximum load. If so, then somebody has been mis-sold the hardware. Whatever you’re doing it will be at a consistent load though. They are always doing the same thing.

Wasn’t that the problem with the Mary Rose?

Stadiums in France are municipal facilities. I’m sure the stadium will join the others in Paris and be used for a variety of events.

Even then, at what point do you measure it? DDR interface is likely very much narrower than the interfaces between cache levels. Where does the core end and the memory begin?

Voters may want social care to be on the ballot at the UK general election, but no one seems to be listening.

Yes they are. You just need to be talking to a Liberal Democrat. It’s part of the manifesto.

We do, depending on how you count it.

There’s two major widths in a processor. The data register width and the address bus width, but even that is not the whole story. If you go back to a processor like the 68000, the classic 16-bit processor, it has:

• 32-bit data registers
• 16- bit ALU
• 16-bit data bus
• 32-bit address registers
• 24-bit address bus

Some people called it a 16/32 bit processor, but really it was the 16-bit ALU that classified it as 16-bits.

If you look at a Zen 4 core it has:

• 64-bit data registers
• 512-bit AVX data registers
• 6 x 64-bit integer ALUs
• 4 x 256-bit AVX ALUs
• 2 x 128-bit data bus to DDR5 (dual edge 64-bit)
• ~40-bits of addressable physical RAM

So, what do you want to call this processor?

64-bit (integer width), 128-bit (physical data bus width), 256-bit (widest ALU) or 512-bit (widest register width)? Do you want to multiply those numbers up by the number of ALUs in a core? …by the number of cores on a piece of silicon?

Me, I’d say Zen4 was a 256-bit core, but you could argue any of the above numbers.

Basically, it’s a measurement that lost all meaning so people stopped using it.

Disagree. You quite often have a fair degree of scaler code in between portions which are embarrassingly parallel. If you don’t have a decent scaler core you are destined to be become bottlenecked on them. It’s not that different to a CPU / GPU pairing. If one is under powered, it determines the speed of the overall system.

If you look at what a company like Tenstorrent is doing, they are designing high performance Risc-V cores as a side aspect of their main goal of doing array processors. The reason is because they couldn’t find scaler cores on the market with enough performance to not bottleneck the system.

I think those will have to have fairly good IPC, otherwise they won’t be able to keep the array processors fed with work.

Guess we’ll see.

In terms of specifications all I can find is that this has a 2.0GHz 8-core RV64 processor with Vector. That’s not a lot of info.

Does anybody know anything more about it? Performance level, battery life, etc. I expect this is really a phone or SBC level processor, so it should sip power, right?

Battery prices are now close to $100 per kWh and are predicted to keep dropping.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/electric-vehicle-battery-prices-falling.html

That’s $7k for the 60-70kWh battery we see in lots of cars. That’s offset against an engine that has multiple hundreds of moving parts, also worth several thousand.

No. It’s all about politics and “non-escallaction”.

The US doesn’t want to be seen as fighting this war.

US Vs Russia is a war nobody wants. Unlimited fire power would be easily framed as the US being an active participant.

Then at home Biden has an isolationist opponent framing him as a war-monger.

Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.

Got it! Understood.

1. What damage is it doing in these places?
2. How do we mitigate that damage?

That’s what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.

It’s not “lurching”.

They haven’t had their Brexit / Trump / anti establishment movement play through yet. That’s it.

• … we’ll recognise Palestine as a state.
• … we’ll stop military aid to Israel.
• … we’ll install a new leader in Israel.

Loads of things to offer.

I don’t understand the people who say they’d be bored if they didn’t work.

I think it’s that they would miss the sense of achievement that comes from a group collaboration on a shared goal. Doesn’t mean it needs to be what they do today, but I suspect you’d find these people in community projects if you didn’t have to earn.