Happy RISC-V 16th Anniversary!
No one seems to mention here nor on X nor on RISC-V International official blog this year, but May 18 is the birthday of RISC-V. Yay!
No one seems to mention here nor on X nor on RISC-V International official blog this year, but May 18 is the birthday of RISC-V. Yay!
u/camel-cdr-'s RVV benchmark published the up-to-date results of Ascalon X and Ascalon S from the TT-Ascalon family by Tenstorrent. The lesser-known Ascalon S is a high-efficiency core while Ascalon X is a high-performance core, both compliant to RVA23. The results are measured on an FPGA-based simulation platform, not on a manufactured silicon chip.
From the draft of upcoming XiangShan biweekly report:
> The development of X200, SpacemiT's third-generation high-performance RISC-V processor core derived from XiangShan Kunming Lake V2, has been completed. Based on a conventional cloud-computing processor core, X200 has been specifically optimized for cloud-side Agent applications and flagship end-device Agent applications. Its SPECint 2006 performance reaches 16.0 points/GHz, and its single-core frequency can reach 3.3GHz. Compared with X100, its performance per core has improved by more than 100%, reaching 50 SPECint 2006 points/Core.
According to the paragraph above, the performance of SpacemiT's next processor core will reach somewhere between SiFive P670 and P870.
The SPEC CPU: The Next Generation conference paper explains the background, motivation and design of the benchmark.
This is an alternative approach for forward-edge CFI that is covered by the Zicfilp extension.