Intel & RISC-V
It sounds like Pathfinder was a fairly low-key project at Intel - maybe just a couple of engineers working on it... Maybe they couldn't sustain it with the interest it was receiving, and needed more resources than Intel was prepared to give it?
Tom's Hardware reports that the HiFive Pro P550 (codenamed Horse Creek) platform is still going ahead (thankfully) : so I guess IFS is still hoping to attract RISC-V designs to fab..?
Given that Intel seem to be in financial freefall, I think SiFive was right to resist Intel's attempt to buy them out - there'd be nothing left of SiFive at this point.
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Extreme Tech were reporting that Intel were going to announce the use of an "entirely new microarchitecture" (in the announcement on the 26th)... I take it that didn't happen. I'd hoped they were going to put RISC-V at its heart.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
