Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...

In article <2024Aug29.151755@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:

jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) writes:

Android is apparently waiting for a new RISC-V instruction set
extension;

Which one?

I don't know what its name is. It was proposed by Hans Boehm, and the
Android team pointed me to this discussion on a RISC-V mailing list:

https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-unprivileged/topic/92916241

Searching with various terms suggests it might well be the Zabha
extension, ratified in April this year, but that is deduction.

You may not consider it large-scale, but we wanted to have two
RISC-V servers for teaching (in particular, for the compiler
course).

Makes sense. It is not in itself "large-scale," but suitable hardware is
only going to be available if someone wants a lot of it, enough to make
building it worthwhile. 

Now it's two years later, and the RISC-V servers are still not
showing up.

Yup. RISC-V established a lot of awareness, and some expectations, but
there hasn't been the equipment to let people start using it.

John