10 billion RISC-V cores were shipped last year - mostly you wont see them because they're heavily embedded - in disk drives/etc - used to be every flash drive had an ARM core in it and paid a few pennies to ARM, that's likely to change quickly
Jim Keller's slide [1] on RISC-V. Simple words. Grug like.
[1] https://www.techgoing.com/jim-keller-innovation-is-happening...
They had a job posting a few months ago which asked for RISC-V experience.
edit: they still have them.
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200349341/system-archit...
I wish I could buy stock in RISC-V (in the abstract).
See also today: https://twitter.com/SiFive/status/1570880204804849671
Testing the waters.
Notably, Apple was among main investors when ARM was a startup; they're not doing this to save in ARM fees.
This is based on Dylan Patel’s speculation, and he quite commonly just comes up with something that he wants to be reality and presents it as fact.
What benefits does RISC-V have over ARM besides it being open/free?
Apple end game:
Apple ISA. Might take them a decade, but in the end, they will eventually do all their own thing.
riscv64gc-apple-darwin
Bit of a RISC-Y manoeuvrer no?
*Badumph*
This is a two paragraph, highly speculative "summary" of [0] which was posted earlier [1].
But even reading the original article, it barely mentions Apple and CharlesW highly editorialized that submissions title:
The Apple bit:
> For example, Apple’s A15 has more than a dozen Arm-based CPU cores distributed across the die for various non-user-facing functions. SemiAnalysis can confirm that these cores are actively being converted to RISC-V in future generations of hardware.
The original title:
> SiFive Powers Google TPU, NASA, Tenstorrent, Renesas, Microchip, And More
The bulk of the article is about Google and hyping Risk-V, not Apple.
[0] https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/sifive-powers-google-tpu...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32872927