Reply to post: Re: No, this is the decline of x86

Seagate says it's designed two of its own RISC-V CPU cores – and they'll do more than just control storage drives

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Re: No, this is the decline of x86

5Ghz is a physics problem, not particularly related to the instruction set.

At the end of the day, CPUs switch transistors. Instruction sets are just a big lookup table to control that process; part a chain of encodings starting in the middle of your GCC/LLVM compiler...

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