Android Authority

Arm reveals new licensing strategy as RISC-V makes waves

Today, Arm announced an additional option for companies looking to build CPUs and SoCs utilizing its intellectual property. The new Arm Flexible Access option sits alongside the company’s existing ...
Electronic Design

Arm Eases Upfront Licensing Fees to Head Off RISC-V

(Image courtesy of Fritzchens Fritz, Flickr). Arm has altered its licensing model in a bid to attract more customers to its chip designs, improve its position in the Internet of Things market and ...
EE World Online

600 MHz Cortex-M7, RISC-V, and Cortex-M33 MCUs target robotics, automotive, and edge AI

GigaDevice is demonstrating four application areas at Embedded World 2026 (Hall 5, Stand 5-129) built around its GD32 MCU ...
Liliputing

SiFive says its next RISC-V processor outperforms ARM Cortex-A78

When RISC-V chip designer SiFive introduced its Performance P550 processor in June, the company said it was the highest-performance processor based on RISC-V architecture to date. Now the company is ...
TechSpot

Arm and RISC-V: Can there only be one?

In almost every discussion about RISC-V's position in the ecosystem, the instruction set architecture (ISA) is often seen as a direct competitor to Arm. Most people view the two ISAs as being engaged ...
VentureBeat

RISC-V grows globally as an alternative to Arm and its license fees

ARM is the most successful microprocessor architecture on the planet, with its licensees shipping billions of chips a year. But a rival has emerged in the past few years called RISC-V, a new kind of ...
Business Wire

New Open Virtual Platforms Processor Models for ARM, Imagination Technologies, RISC-V and Renesas Accelerate Software Development

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in high-performance software simulation, today announced the availability of new Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) models for ARM, ...
Digi Times

Arm retires Cortex brand, teases proprietary chip as RISC-V heat rises

Arm Holdings has announced a major rebranding initiative and confirmed plans to enter the chip design space—a strategic pivot that could position the UK-based architecture firm in direct competition..
Electronic Design

SiFive Forms Business Unit to Build Chips With RISC-V and Arm Inside

SiFive said the business unit, called OpenFive, would work with customers to manufacture chips based on the 5-nanometer node or less advanced foundry processes as well as 2.5D advanced packaging.
Liliputing

SiFive’s new U8-Series RISC-V chip designs should be competitive with ARM Cortex-A72

Laptop and desktop computers are dominated by x86 chips from Intel and AMD, while most modern smartphones and tablets ship with processors based on ARM designs (although the lines are blurring now ...
ExtremeTech

RISC rides again: New RISC-V architecture hopes to battle ARM and x86 by being totally open source

A new instruction set by the original creator of MIPS aims to reinvent the ultra-low power, high-efficiency processor -- and to do so with an architecture that's fundamentally open and available to ...