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GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

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224 points mshockwave | 3 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.751s | source
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somanyphotons ◴[08 Jul 25 17:48 UTC] No.44502326[source]▶
How are the various riscv cpu IP vendors generally doing financially?

Is this the very beginning of a market consolidation?

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kragen ◴[08 Jul 25 19:49 UTC] No.44503396[source]▶
I don't think people generally pay for RISC-V CPU IP.
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1. Keyframe ◴[08 Jul 25 20:01 UTC] No.44503518[source]▶
For ISA? Certainly not. For actual designs, for sure. Why wouldn't they unless there's some open source designs they'd be using?
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2. kragen ◴[08 Jul 25 20:12 UTC] No.44503633[source]▶
Well, because there are open-source designs they'd be using. The GD32V microcontroller, for example, uses Nucleisys's BumbleBee, and high-performance chips from several vendors use Brother Honey Badger's Apache-licensed XuanTie C910: https://github.com/XUANTIE-RV/openc910

But see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503847

3. ryao ◴[09 Jul 25 00:17 UTC] No.44505191[source]▶
There are open source designs. Here is one:

https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom