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Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration

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The RISC-V movement has been given a massive boost after Meta revealed it is primed to begin mass development of hardware and products with the technology at its core.

RISC, an alternative Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) to the x86 architecture used by the likes of Intel and AMD in their best CPUs, is dominated by Arm. This ISA is largely able to replicate many of the functionalities of the best GPUs and processors out there. 

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