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Reply to post: Re: 16 RISC-V extensions were ratified

Chatter around GPUs for RISC-V is growing

Sunday 12th December 2021 19:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

Re: 16 RISC-V extensions were ratified

In case anyone missed it: A GPU is not an extension to a CPU instruction set. GPUs have specialised instructions designed to operate thousands of cheap cores on a chip.

Even the most expensive CPU have 128 cores at most...

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