mhayenga | 8 years ago | on: HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board
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mhayenga | 8 years ago | on: Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year
You really do an amazing job writing these up. Back when I used to work at ARM and attended the 3rd workshop, I ended up just pointing people to your write-up rather than my own notes.
mhayenga | 8 years ago | on: Broadcom Is Said to Explore Deal to Buy Qualcomm
Freescale -> NXP -> Qualcomm -> Broadcom
Insanity. They really should replace the sign in front of the Austin Freescale office with a digital display to change as needed.
mhayenga | 9 years ago | on: Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement
This really isn't news, it's been known for years. A GPU team is based in Austin (knowing Apple, they likely have multiple).
mhayenga | 9 years ago | on: The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
As someone who voted "against" Uber/Lyft, I can promise you their PACs misleading and blatantly false propaganda regarding the city ordinance directly caused them to lose my vote. That and people love getting 4 fliers per day in their mailbox.
Good riddance.
mhayenga | 9 years ago | on: Princeton Piton Processor
Eh, Wentzlaff (professor behind this) co-founded Tilera. He can definitely make something others could use. I view him doing OpenPiton as an attempt to give back to researchers now that he has become a prof.
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$100 = Would buy this on a whim on the off-chance it's usable. Also, would consider buying 12x of them to outfit an undergrad lab.
$1000 = Have to have a clear project/vision in mind of how the board would be used and how other methods (FPGA/emulation) couldn't suffice.