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Submission + - SPAM: Intel Invests In Open-Source RISC-V Processors With a Billion Dollars

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An anonymous reader writes: RISC-V International, the global open hardware standards organization has announced that Intel has joined RISC-V at the Premier membership level. Let that sink in for a minute. Intel, which has made billions from its closed-source, complex instruction set computer (CISC) x86 processors, is joining forces with RISC-V, the open-source reduced instruction set computer (RISC) CPU group. What next? Dogs and cats living together!? Dr. David Patterson, co-creator of RISC-V helped create it to be an open lingua franca for computer chips, a set of instructions that would be used by all chipmakers and owned by none. Today, Patterson said, "I'm delighted that Intel, the company that pioneered the microprocessor 50 years ago, is now a member of RISC-V International."

Why? Because Intel sees a future in which ARM, x86, and RISC-V all play major roles. In particular, Intel has already seen strong demand for more RISC-V intellectual property (IP) and chip offerings. Intel's not just giving this idea lip service. Intel also announced a new $1 billion fund to support early-stage foundry startups. Together Intel Capital and Intel Foundry Services (IFS) will prioritize investments in chip IP, software tools, innovative chip architectures, and advanced packaging technologies. Randhir Thakur, IFS President, said this new program will focus on two key strategic industry points: Enabling modular products with an open chiplet platform and supporting design approaches that leverage multiple instruction set architectures including and spanning x86, Arm, and RISC-V.

As part of these initiatives, IFS will sponsor an open-source software development platform. This will provide IP for all three of the leading ISAs chip architectures. RISC-V has always been about providing open modular building blocks. Together Intel and RISC-V will expand the RISC-V ecosystem and help drive its commercialization. [...] Intel is already offering RISC-V chips: It's Nios V processors based on RISC-V. Moving ahead Intel hopes its new RISC-V investment will speed up RISC-V's development.
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Comment Re:hmmm I wonder... (Score 2) 79

by alexhs (#62150725) Attached to: Snap Suing To Trademark the Word 'Spectacles' For Its Smart Glasses

Nah, shoe is a common word. You should try CLOG.

Then, when the USPTO rejects your application, you can argue that clog is an old-fashioned term popular in pre-WWII rurality and that it is not often used today in the United States, especially by your young audience; that this indicates that modern-day usage of "clog" in the United States -- especially among a younger demographic of consumers who are the relevant consumers of your CLOG camera product -- is not commonly understood to mean footwear, and certainly not a wireless-enabled video camera product."

You can also claim the CLOG name evokes an incongruity between a pre-industrialisation term for footwear and your high-tech 21st century smart footwear, and that CLOG also is suggestive of the camera's function, to clog the Internet tubes from the constant streaming of its foot's-eye view.

Comment Re: innovation is coming out of Iceland? (Score 3, Informative) 145

by alexhs (#61556351) Attached to: Four-day Week 'an Overwhelming Success' in Iceland

Suicide rates:
United States of America: 14.5 / 100,000
Iceland: 11.2 / 100,000

Besides, there's a trend up in the USA, which is not observable in Iceland (it's a bit erratic, because having a small population, a single suicide causes a jump of more than 0,5 in the gendered historical data)

Please don't mod up anonymous idiots.

Comment Re:Income vs revenue? (Score 1) 305

Either you don't know what development means or you're an excellent CFO.

Isn't the second option just a subset of the first one ? (possibly in the Upton Sinclair's twisted way of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!")

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