No RISC-V post would be complete without a link to lowRISC:
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There are many other, equally if not more interesting implementations...
lowRISC is the only project that aims to distribute ASICs AFAIK. Are there others?
The pulp platform has taped out a RISC-V based microcontroller, but I don't think they have plans to sell/really distribute any asics unfortunately.
Yeah, that is the problem with niche CPU arches; if mass quantities aren't available to buy (either lone chips or in consumer products), people aren't going to use it much. Not everyone can afford to have their own fab :)
You can always start playing around with PULPino on a FPGA :)
Pretty much everyone is looking at eventual ASIC fabrication. It just takes a lot of money to do that, so people are validating ideas first on FPGAs.
Everyone is looking at ASIC fabrication, it's distribution that we're concerned about.
URLs or it didn't happen!