RISC-V Is The King of Heterogenous Computing

As specialized hardware becomes more important on all computing platforms RISC-V will establish dominance.

Erik Engheim
2 min readJan 7, 2022

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The world of computing is transitioning from homogenous computing to heterogenous computing. What does that even mean?

Homogenous computing means you got a bunch of general purpose CPUs which you duplicate several times over to do most of your work. Heterogenous computer means you use a lot of specialized hardware to do a lot of tasks.

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Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.