On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
The A72 which they quote as their target is consuming 700-900 watts per core, let alone the entire package. If they can drop power consumption that much( assuming a quad core ~75% less power consumption) then this is way more revolutionary than I thought.
there's a paper comparing the two in 45nm, and yes RISC-V was around half the power.
Does that cover all the specialized hardware and video accel too?.
no.
What's your definition of a monster gpu?
MALI T650 or so (whatever it is). not MALI-400, that's "little monster" :)
Running 1080p at 60hz on a browser is a must imo and wether we like it or not wayland is the future so it will also need some sort of opengl compliant gpu just for futureproofing.
the initial plan is to use the main processor with some basic SIMD vector-processing instructions, which in quad-core would be more than adequate.
bear in mind this is - preliminarily - to be around a USD $3 SoC with between 320 and 400 pins.
l.