The factuality of this article is pretty dodgy.<p>The C910 core was not launched two years ago, it was launched in July 2019, at the same time as the C906, and just weeks after the RISC-V base ISA (RV64IMAFDC) was officially frozen and published.<p>THead recently said their customers have shipped billions of these cores. The C906 was available earlier with the AWOL Nezha dev board available in around June 2021. A board ("RVB-ICE") with three C910 cores in a low volume test chip became available in November 2021 or so.<p>Two mass-production chips with the C910 (quad core TH1520 and 64 core SG2042) became available in test chips in early 2023 and shipped in volume in July 2023 and January 2024.<p>I'm not sure why the SG2042 would not be regarded as a "server grade" chip. It's similar microarchitecture and cache and clock speed to Amazon's Graviton 1 five years earlier, except with 64 cores instead of 16. Certainly 2nd generation chips will be better, but it's already usable.
Risc-v is cool, I just wish there was an easier way to simulate it and try your code on.
At the moment, I use a vscode extension but it’s very limited.<p>The workflow from writing your code to trying it in your microprocessor is slow.