[HN Gopher] Intel in talks to acquire RISC-V firm SiFive for $2B
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       Intel in talks to acquire RISC-V firm SiFive for $2B
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-06-13 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.techradar.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.techradar.com)
        
       | romesmoke wrote:
       | Ladies and gentlemen, the Chip Wars board is now set. Though
       | ARM+NVIDIA seem to hold the high ground due to the RISC+SIMD
       | coupling, who knows how far RISC-V's vector instructions and VLIW
       | could go when combined with Intel's domain knowledge...
        
       | jlundberg wrote:
       | Does this mean Chris Lattner might join Intel's new chipset
       | mission? :-)
       | 
       | Yay!
        
         | BooneJS wrote:
         | He's a compiler guy, right?
        
       | mrtweetyhack wrote:
       | Why. They could just hire or repurpose a few engineers and build
       | a competitor. This is just dumb.
        
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