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RISC-V Breakthrough: SpacemiT Develops Server CPU Chip V100 for Next-Gen AI Applications

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Recently, SpacemiT, a RISC-V AI CPU company from China, announced breakthrough progress in the development of its server CPU chip SpacemiT Vital Stone V100. It now provides a complete RISC-V CPU chip hardware and software platform that fully supports server specifications.

RISC-V CPU core X100, AIA and APLIC supporting interrupt virtualization, IOMMU supporting memory virtualization, IOPMP supporting security functions, LPC and eSPI supporting communication with mainstream BMCs, etc.
  • The 64-bit server-grade RISC-V CPU core X100 delivers a single-core performance of >9 points/GHz on SPECINT2006 at 2.5 GHz 12 nm. X100 supports the RVA23 Profile, full virtualization (Hypervisor 1.0, AIA 1.0, IOMMU), RAS features, Vector 1.0 extension, vector encryption and decryption, security, 64-core interconnect, and more.
  • The IOMMU IP adheres to the RISC-V IOMMU architecture specification and the AXI4-Stream DTI interface, supporting configurable DID, PID, virtual address, physical address width, and various levels of translation cache sizes. It can be flexibly integrated into different locations within the SoC bus system to enable distributed peripheral virtualization and accelerator acceleration.



Key Subsystems:
Including CPU subsystem, bus subsystem, IOMMU subsystem, interrupt subsystem, debug & trace subsystem, clock & reset subsystem, RMU management and control subsystem, etc., thereby realizing the development of the server CPU chip platform.

Software R&D Progress:
Based on the self-developed server CPU chip platform, the development of server platform firmware that complies with the RISC-V BRS Spec specification has been completed. This includes openSBI/UEFI (BIOS)/Linux and other low-level software that meets the requirements of the Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), UEFI (BIOS), SMBIOS, ACPI, and other specifications. The Linux operating system has been adapted and ported, and it supports the GlobalPlatform-standard OP-TEE secure operating system. The platform firmware and operating system can now be successfully run and demonstrated on an FPGA of the server CPU chip platform.

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>>...The 64-bit server-grade RISC-V CPU core X100 delivers a single-core performance of >9 points/GHz
>>on SPECINT2006 at 2.5 GHz...

The value of 9 means that the RISC-V system has executed this benchmark 9 times faster as the reference system.

It is Too Low when compared to small, already legacy, computing systems.

For example, a more than 15-year-old IBM Power 550 system with 8 cores ( POWER6+ ) at 5.0 GHz could have values 215 ( base ) and 263 ( peak ) for SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.
 
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The US government should prohibit the supply of any CPU (ARM, RISC-V, x86, etc.) and GPU designs to Chinese developers or manufacturers.
 
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