From ff526a3654bc070e08580726afc4ccfae6e5d13d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 16:05:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index a1d0701d3..13673403d 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -87,9 +87,17 @@ Ecosystem? making its way into data centres. * OpenRISC, an entirely Open ISA suitable for embedded systems. * s390, a Mainframe ISA very similar to Power. -* Power ISA, a Supercomputing-class ISA. +* Power ISA, a Supercomputing-class ISA, as demonstrated by + two out of three of the top500.org supercomputers using + 160,000 IBM POWER9 Cores. * ARC, a competitor at the time to ARM, best known for use in Broadcom VideoCore IV. +* RISC-V, with a software ecosystem heavily in development + and with rapid adoption + in an uncontrolled fashion, is set on an unstoppable + and inevitable trainwreck path to replicate the + opcode conflict nightmare that plagued the Power ISA, + two decades ago. * Tensilica, Andes STAR and Western Digital for successful commercial proprietary ISAs: Tensilica in Baseband Modems, Andes in Audio DSPs, WD in HDDs and SSDs. These are all -- 2.30.2