Ariane is a 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux

[jrepinc]

https://pulp-platform.github.io/ariane/docs/home/

[tryp]

I love that the instruction decode unit's ability to command a flush on branch mispredicts is represented in the diagram as a toilet.

[dang]

A related thread, from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16399759. Others?

[bitwize]

That's cool.

When can I buy an SBC with one, that's within one base-10 order of magnitude of the Raspberry Pi's price?

[andrewcchen → bitwize]

This is only a cpu core. It lacks the memory controller and peripherals that make a SoC work. It will probably never make its way into a chip tapeout.

[q3k → andrewcchen]

> Ariane has been taped-out December 2017 in Globalfoundries 22nm FDX

https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/14.15-1...

[fluffything → bitwize]

I'm pretty sure that if you order 1 billion of them, they'll do you a good price.

[snowwrestler]

Seems like maybe an inauspicious name for a CPU...

http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/ariane.html

[marcellus23 → snowwrestler]

Ariane is the name of an entire family of rockets that are still being launched today and are not generally known for being unreliable.

[bj0 → marcellus23]

They had a successful launch today in fact: https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/16/ariane-5-va-251-missio...

[ColanR → marcellus23]

Last I heard they were also having a lot of trouble competing with the industry leaders...

[adev_ → ColanR]

> Last I heard they were also having a lot of trouble competing with the industry leaders...

Ariane was the most competitive / succeful private launcher for 20 years even in face of American companies.

SpaceX is however currently disruptive them, like every other actor of the industry.

[ColanR → adev_]

Ya, that's what I heard. After spaceX started doing better than them, they were having trouble because they didn't want to start using reusable rockets.

[ekimekim → snowwrestler]

I saw "6-stage" and "Ariane" in the title and got very confused...

[nickik → snowwrestler]

Its an reference to the 'Rocket' program of Berkley. Also, overall Ariane is one of the savest rockets in human history.