NEOX V Announced By Think Silicon As First RISC-V 3D GPU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NEOX V Announced By Think Silicon As First RISC-V 3D GPU

While there has been the Libre RISC-V community-driven effort to create a RISC-V graphics processor that basically amounts to a RISC-V core with vector extensions/improvements and running a Vulkan software implementation (though they are now reportedly eyeing POWER instead of RISC-V), Think Silicon has announced the first actual RISC-V ISA based 3D graphics processor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NEOX-V-RISC-V-3D-GPU

[milkylainen]

So. Developing hardware costs, 1. Time. 2. Money.
Free organisations create an ISA. Making the community gain momentum.
Companies, not interested in contributing, fork their own implementations (obviously).

So. How many hardware solutions do we have that are free and worth a damn?
Still at square zero.

This is about as interesting to me as hearing about another Chinese SoC vendor.
I don't know why I would ever want this over a COTS full custom ASIC GPU
The full custom ASIC would probably be less money and way more performance.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Well, that probably explain why RISC-V Foundation was hostile towards Libre RISC-V?

[tildearrow]

I guess this thing, unlike the Libre RISC-V, actually has a geometry processor... right?

[pkese]

Well, that probably explain why RISC-V Foundation was hostile towards Libre RISC-V?

How exactly and when was RISC-V Foundation being hostile?

[starshipeleven]

So. Developing hardware costs, 1. Time. 2. Money.
Free organisations create an ISA. Making the community gain momentum.
Companies, not interested in contributing, fork their own implementations (obviously).

Are you sure you know what an ISA is? It's a set of standards.

There is nothing to "fork" in an ISA. Implementations can be forked. This implementation is not derived by something else.

The full custom ASIC would probably be less money and way more performance.

If all you want it to run are OpenGL/Vulkan stuff, probably. If you want to target it directly with the code (i.e. write a native application for it), probably not.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

How exactly and when was RISC-V Foundation being hostile?

Refused to communicate. Check comments to article about switching this project to POWER.

[starshipeleven]

I guess this thing, unlike the Libre RISC-V, actually has a geometry processor... right?

Does not seem so, as the graphics capability is provided by loading and running GLOVE in it.

[pal666]

Implementations can be forked.

implementation also can implement forked standard, like microsoft with eee

[pal666]

Refused to communicate.

because think silicon was developing risc-v product?
what makes think silicon so special?