One Guy Built an 8,192-Core Supercomputer in His Basement. The Chip Industry Should Be Panicking.
A single hobbyist assembled an 8,192-core RISC-V cluster that rivals commercial supercomputers in raw parallelism. But the core count is a distraction — the real breakthrough is that open-source hardware now lets anyone customize a processor cluster without vendor lock-in, threatening the entire proprietary chip architecture model.