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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:13:05 +0000
From:      Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
To:        Bruce Hoult <brucehoult@sifive.com>
Cc:        Ruslan Bukin <ruslan.bukin@cl.cam.ac.uk>, RISC-V SW Dev <sw-dev@groups.riscv.org>, freebsd-riscv <freebsd-riscv@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [sw-dev] GCC 8.x or 9.x for FreeBSD rv64imafdc ??
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>> We just are not there and the money needed for a 9nm solution is $300M or so.
> 
> No one except x86 systems based on CPUs from Intel and AMD has the
> volume and supply chain maturity to be "there". No one.
> 

Yep .. we all know this.

So I am looking at about $4k to get a prototype hardware kit
together and that would provide a pci bus.

Such is life.

Dennis




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