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•Created by Marvee Amasi on 7/1/2024 in #firmware-and-baremetal

Why Doesn't Intel Expose the Internal RISC Core to Programmers?

I think you’ll see Intel processors integrate more and more different cores over time. They’re already doing it with their version of bigLITTLE architecture in the newer Core processors, integrated GPUs, and now a bunch of accelerators for AI, vision, etc. They were also active with RISC-V for a while (but that may have had more to do with Foundry than anything). At the same time I think they are preparing for a world of application developers and APIs. Those devs may be abstracted enough from the silicon that they don’t care. Curious to hear others’ thoughts.

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