Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V

The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used on Windows as a shader compiler back-end and both for Windows/Linux as part of their OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack can now be compiled for RISC-V 64-bit...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Compiler-RISC-V

[zamazan4ik]

Still waiting for when Intel engineers will improve the compiler's performance with PGO: GitHub issue

[rmfx]

If Intel becomes a RISC-V chip designer leader and bets on it for its future chips rather than x86, and do not interfere negatively with the ISA evolution (meaning no lobbying to add crappy extensions nobody wants except them), they may regain some of my completely lost trust.

[strtj]

I find it fascinating that despite all of the negative press about Intel lately, and their having to cut workforce as well as (probably) manufacturing capability, that they appear to be branching out into a totally new architecture. I would think that restructuring/refocusing a company as large and focused as Intel would not involve getting into entirely new areas of technology. After all, look at what happened to their forays into entirely new architectures/tech: Itanium, I don't think I have to explain that one; Xscale, sold to Marvell; Larrabee, refocused into Knights Mill/Knights Landing/etc, then put on hiatus with a supposed forthcoming product that never appeared; and Arc, so far not a total failure but I can't imagine it's the success that Intel wanted it to be. Oh, and also Optane, supposed to be totally groundbreaking and it some ways it was, but my understanding is that it never turned a profit.

[brad0]

I find it fascinating that despite all of the negative press about Intel lately, and their having to cut workforce as well as (probably) manufacturing capability, that they appear to be branching out into a totally new architecture. I would think that restructuring/refocusing a company as large and focused as Intel would not involve getting into entirely new areas of technology. After all, look at what happened to their forays into entirely new architectures/tech: Itanium, I don't think I have to explain that one; Xscale, sold to Marvell; Larrabee, refocused into Knights Mill/Knights Landing/etc, then put on hiatus with a supposed forthcoming product that never appeared; and Arc, so far not a total failure but I can't imagine it's the success that Intel wanted it to be. Oh, and also Optane, supposed to be totally groundbreaking and it some ways it was, but my understanding is that it never turned a profit.

Intel is doing no such thing.

[strtj]

Intel is doing no such thing.

That's an awfully terse, blanket statement. How do you know that? It would seem from this article that Intel is indeed moving into RISC-V space; do you have evidence otherwise?

[brad0]

If Intel becomes a RISC-V chip designer leader and bets on it for its future chips rather than x86, and do not interfere negatively with the ISA evolution (meaning no lobbying to add crappy extensions nobody wants except them), they may regain some of my completely lost trust.

Intel isn't doing that though.

[brad0]

That's an awfully terse, blanket statement. How do you know that? It would seem from this article that Intel is indeed moving into RISC-V space; do you have evidence otherwise?

The article literally pertains to Arc GPUs running on other architectures and has nothing to do with Intel designing CPUs with another architecture. You know they sell a product to customers and want them to use it.

[strtj]

Intel isn't doing that though.

Again, how do you know that? Why would Intel put effort into making their compiler work on RISC-V unless they were going to have a product that combined that core with Intel graphics?

[brad0]

Again, how do you know that? Why would Intel put effort into making their compiler work on RISC-V unless they were going to have a product that combined that core with Intel graphics?

No common sense? Selling Arc GPU to customers?

The Intel graphics compiler builds on ARM. Intel added ARM support to SVT-AV1, does that mean they're making ARM CPUs? Or just common sense they want people to use their encoder.

There are enough customers that are desperate for GPUs with open source drivers and all of the related components and that are portable.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arc-Graphics-On-ARM