10 points | by rbanffy 15 hours ago
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> It will be tapped out [sic] in 2025
So... won't exist until end 2025 and suffer yield difficulties. Nobody can test it. It doesn't sound like it's on the top 10 of Intel's problems even.
Apparently they moved to their own MIPS-derived ISA... but is it binary compatible? Anyone know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch
EDIT: apparently not https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LoongArch#Basic_facts
> LoongArch is not binary compatible with either MIPS or RISC-V, although the ISA and ABI show heavy influence of the two.
> It will be tapped out [sic] in 2025
So... won't exist until end 2025 and suffer yield difficulties. Nobody can test it. It doesn't sound like it's on the top 10 of Intel's problems even.
Apparently they moved to their own MIPS-derived ISA... but is it binary compatible? Anyone know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch
EDIT: apparently not https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LoongArch#Basic_facts
> LoongArch is not binary compatible with either MIPS or RISC-V, although the ISA and ABI show heavy influence of the two.