The article focuses on the RISC-V aspect but the website advertising the controller focuses on the fact they moved most of the work away from any CPU and into dedicated hardware. (The marketing-simplification has “heavy CPU” for their competitors and “light CPU” for themselves.)
This makes sense for acceleration. However it seems like a bold move given the number of subtle bugs found in other SSD controllers and then fixed in firmware updates.
The article focuses on the RISC-V aspect but the website advertising the controller focuses on the fact they moved most of the work away from any CPU and into dedicated hardware. (The marketing-simplification has “heavy CPU” for their competitors and “light CPU” for themselves.)
This makes sense for acceleration. However it seems like a bold move given the number of subtle bugs found in other SSD controllers and then fixed in firmware updates.