ZDNet

Rediscovering RISC-V: Apple M1 sparks renewed interest in non-x86 architectures

RISC-V is, like x86 and ARM, an instruction set architecture (ISA). Unlike x86 and ARM, it is a free and open standard that anyone can use without getting locked into someone else's processor designs ...
Electronic Design

Looking at RISC-V Implementations

This TechXchange examines various platforms the utilize the RISC-V instruction set and architecture. This includes boards and modules as well as chips. SiFive put one of its RISC-V designs on a ...
Forbes

RISC-V’s Ascent Could Reshape The Global Compute Landscape

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. For decades, chip architectures have been dominated by a pair of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Wants All Your Cores

RISC-V is no longer content to disrupt the CPU industry. It is waging war against every type of processor integrated into an SoC or advanced package, an ambitious plan that will face stiff competition ...
ZDNet

RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs

A decade ago, an idea was born in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley to create a lingua franca for computer chips, a set of instructions that would be used by all chipmakers and ...
Digital Trends

ARM vs. RISC-V: Is one better than the other?

If you wanted to make a CPU, and you’re not AMD or Intel, there are two real choices: ARM and RISC-V. But what are the differences between the two, and why do companies choose one over the other?
The Next Platform

Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer

A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. More importantly, it demonstrates a potential ...

Bolt wants to take on Nvidia by building a RISC-V graphics processor

Bolt Graphics wants to take on Nvidia and AMD by building a RISC-V graphics processor ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing Fast Barriers For A Shared-Memory Cluster Of 1024 RISC-V Cores

A technical paper titled “Fast Shared-Memory Barrier Synchronization for a 1024-Cores RISC-V Many-Core Cluster” was published by researchers at ETH Zürich and Università di Bologna. “Synchronization ...
Electronic Design

Multicore RISC-V Designs for Smart Automotive Apps

How MIPS supports functional safety with RISC-V. What functionality is provided by MIPS RISC-V P8700 core? Why designers are looking to vendors like MIPS for solutions rather than the core IP. 1. Six ...
TechSpot

Qualcomm announces RISC-V chip for Wear OS-based wearable devices

Highly anticipated: After betting on the future of RISC-V with an industry-wide alliance, Qualcomm is now bringing its first chip based on the open-source architecture to the mass market. The American ...