Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon

European cloud provider Scaleway showed off its new RISC-V servers at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF's) Kubecon Europe 2024 event. Scaleway engineer holding an experimental RISC-V server (pic: Richard Speed) Scaleway's experimental RISC-V unit (click to enlarge) Pic: Richard Speed The service was launched …

[nautica]

RISC-V hasn't hit its stride yet...

See

“RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s",

here.

[cyberdemon]

Re: RISC-V hasn't hit its stride yet...

Nice to see RISC-V PCIe in action. Will be interesting to see if RISC-V could supplant Intel/AMD/Arm at hosting GPUs..

[mark l 2]

Depending on how well it performs for 16 Euro + tax per month you would struggle to get a dedicated X86 or ARM server for that price, so it could well be worth the while if you really want the benefit of running on bare metal over a VPS. Assuming what you want to run on it supports RISC-V

[ldo]

Re: Assuming what you want to run on it supports RISC-V

You already have complete Linux distros for it, offering fully self-hosted development and deployment stacks.

It seems to be easier to recompile open-source software for new architectures than the proprietary software vendors can manage.