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Qualcomm talks up RISC-V, roasts 'legacy architecture' amid war with Arm
Comment Sees opportunity on one side, dictatorial control on the other
Systems15 Dec 2022 | 31
RISC-V
RISC-V is an open royalty-free instruction set architecture for general purpose CPU cores. RISC-V International sets and publishes the specification of this architecture, and chip designers are free to implement it in their components.
Ventana targets hyperscalers with customizable RISC-V server chip
RISC-V Summit Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house
Systems12 Dec 2022 | 5
Brit chip company picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers
RISC-V Summit Fabless maker goes for open chip architecture, with actual chips schedueld to ship late 2023
Systems12 Dec 2022 | 30
Alibaba, Tencent enlisted to help sanction-weary China build RISC-V chips
PRC and chums see open-source chip architecture as safer alternative to Arm
Systems01 Dec 2022 | 11
Ubuntu continues expanding RISC-V support – now, the $17 Sipeed LicheeRV
As progress revealed on Android port to the open ISA
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 12
Chinese city of Shenzhen offers free money to boost chip industry
Throwing cash at industry to keep chip well from running dry as US sanctions continue to bite
Systems12 Oct 2022 | 4
China may prove Arm wrong about RISC-V's role in the datacenter
Analysis Cloud and equipment makers also keen to escape Softbank's licensing boot
Systems05 Oct 2022 | 38
SiFive RISC-V cores picked for Google AI compute nodes
Cor, that's a shot in the arm for this upstart CPU ISA
AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 13
Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter
Analysis Competition is good for everyone. Just keep it friendly, folks
Systems17 Sep 2022 | 50
SiFive RISC-V CPU cores to power NASA's next spaceflight computer
After more than two decades, the space agency's PowerPC love affair appears to be at an end
Science06 Sep 2022 | 63
Alibaba Cloud launches RISC-V developer platform for edge SoCs
Says it's already used Wujian 600 to pull up its own SoC
Systems25 Aug 2022 | 2
One of the first RISC-V laptops may ship in September, has an NFT hook
A notebook with an RV SoC is cool enough. Did we really need the Web3 jargon?
Personal Tech01 Jul 2022 | 25
RISC-V International emits more open CPU specs
Embedded World First edicts of 2022 include firmware, hypervisor-level specifications
Systems22 Jun 2022 | 11
Will this be one of the world's first RISC-V laptops?
Pic A sneak peek at a notebook that could be revealed this year
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 55
GNU Compiler Collection adds support for China's LoongArch CPU family
MIPS...ish is on the march in the Middle Kingdom
Systems18 May 2022 | 6
The ‘substantial contributions’ Intel has promised to boost RISC-V adoption
Analysis With the benefit of maybe revitalizing the x86 giant’s foundry business
Systems17 May 2022 | 14
RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete
Opinion Arm shows us that even total domination doesn't always make stupid levels of money
Columnists16 May 2022 | 57
China's Kylin Linux targets second RISC-V platform
Is state-approved Ubuntu distro how the Middle Kingdom will replace PCs with home-grown kit?
OSes16 May 2022 | 5
MIPS discloses first RISC-V chips coming in Q4 2022
eVocore processor line aimed at high-performance, real-time compute applications
Systems11 May 2022 | 17
RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination' by winning over the likes of Intel
Interview We speak to the head of ISA's governing body on industry adoption, timelines, and more
Systems07 May 2022 | 40
India reveals plan to become major RISC-V design and production player by 2023
Joins open chip standard's international board to show it's really serious this time
On-Prem29 Apr 2022 | 10
Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
Cameras, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are operational – maybe China’s wider tech independence plan is, too
OSes27 Apr 2022 | 5
Samsung, others test drive Esperanto's 1,000-core RISC-V AI chip
Now you're talking our language
AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 19
RISC-V takes steps to minimize fragmentation
Steering body calls for help to 'identify ISA gaps, build plans for future extensions'
Systems01 Apr 2022 | 23
Linux 5.17 debuts after 'very calm' extra week of work
Linus Torvalds suggests version 5.18 will be a little larger, hopefully also warm, fuzzy, low-drama
OSes20 Mar 2022 | 11
SiFive bags $175m to further challenge Arm with RISC-V
CEO tells The Reg his engineers still have sights on phones to servers
Systems16 Mar 2022 | 23
RISC-V's SiFive sells connectivity IP to Alphawave
We want to concentrate on legging it after Arm, says biz
Systems14 Mar 2022 | 1
One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi
Interview Eben Upton on RISC-V, supply chains, and what's next for the dinky computers
Personal Tech28 Feb 2022 | 59
RISC-V keeps its head down amid global chip war
Open-source spec appears nation-neutral, but for how long?
On-Prem17 Feb 2022 | 68
Intel's plan to license x86 cores for chips with Arm, RISC-V and more inside
Analysis If you've wanted to create your own specialized Xeon, now's your chance
On-Prem14 Feb 2022 | 32
Intel joins RISC-V governing body, pledges $1bn fund for chip designers
Now that's a shot in the Arm
On-Prem07 Feb 2022 | 9
Imagination GPU cleared for RISC-V CPU compatibility, licensed to chip designers
We love it when a plan comes together
Personal Tech27 Jan 2022 | 21
Desktop-deprived Linus Torvalds releases first release candidate of ‘not huge’ kernel 5.17
Life on the road increases reliance on cloudy tools instead of Emperor Penguin's preferred local tests
OSes24 Jan 2022 | 5
EC president promises European Chips Act to quadruple homegrown production by 2030
'Most of our supplies come from outside Europe. This is a dependency and uncertainty we cannot afford'
On-Prem21 Jan 2022 | 31
RISC-V CTO: We won't dictate chip design like Arm and x86
Interview Mark Himelstein talks about the open ISA's future and challenges
On-Prem04 Jan 2022 | 63
Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project
Three years of R&D and design work to be tested with plans to build native ‘super in 2023
On-Prem24 Dec 2021 | 112
India makes $10B bid to grow local semiconductor industry to serve – and challenge – the world
Which isn't a lot – a single fab can cost more than the entire subsidy pool. India wants four built soon
On-Prem16 Dec 2021 | 8
China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future
The RISC-V Summit is over - here's what you need to know
Systems09 Dec 2021 | 22
Alibaba teases a breakthrough chip, merging processor and memory
And open sources Yun on Chip IoT silicon and ecosystem
On-Prem08 Dec 2021 | 7
China to upgrade mainstream RISC-V chips every six months
Updated Home-baked silicon is the way forward
On-Prem06 Dec 2021 | 12
India reveals home-grown server that won't worry the leading edge
And a National Blockchain Strategy that calls for gov to host BaaS
Systems06 Dec 2021 | 6
SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware
Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family
Virtualization02 Dec 2021 | 10
Enthusiasts dash for RISC-V computer with GPU
Want one? Too late
Personal Tech15 Oct 2021 | 19
Proposed RISC-V vector instructions crank up computing power on small devices
When you need to do audio, voice or image processing at the network edge or on a battery budget
On-Prem08 Oct 2021 | 6
First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative
EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico
HPC22 Sep 2021 | 24
China to push RISC-V to global prominence – but maybe into a corner, too, says analyst
Which may not be a good thing for Arm, or anyone
On-Prem15 Sep 2021 | 20
Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors
Startup co-founded by former Applied Micro X-Gene execs emerges from stealth
Systems01 Sep 2021 | 8
Russia's Elbrus has a RISC-V competitor as Yadro prepares native chips for launch
Rostec throws rubles on the table for a possible 60,000 units a year
On-Prem15 Jul 2021 | 3
Compsci eggheads bring OpenCL framework to RISC-V to push parallel performance
Extended version of POCL now supports everything from high-end parts to embedded chips
On-Prem14 Jul 2021 | 2
Chinese chip designers hope to topple Arm's Cortex-A76 with XiangShan RISC-V design
Permissively licensed, the processor's second iteration targets 2GHz at 14nm
On-Prem06 Jul 2021 | 27
Deep neural networks... IN SPAAACE: Vector-enhanced RISC-V chips could give satellites onboard AI
Boffins point to benefits of putting rad-hardened ASICs in orbit
AI + ML01 Jul 2021 | 2
Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report
Someone's got to keep Altera company
On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 5
RISC-V boffins lay out a plan for bringing the architecture to high-performance computing
'The group is united in making RISC-V an option in HPC,' says SIG-HPC chair
HPC10 Jun 2021 | 7
China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips
Software porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time
Personal Tech08 Jun 2021 | 18
'A fair amount of stuff, all over the place': Torvalds closes merge window for Linux 5.13 with support for Apple M1
5.10 lifespan also extended to six years, up from two
OSes10 May 2021 | 6
What links AMD CPU guru Jim Keller, an AI chip upstart, and SiFive? This vector-crunching 64-bit RISC-V processor
Stressing the ex in x86
AI + ML22 Apr 2021 |
Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released
AOSP effort could help bring GUIs to industrial, IoT, embedded gear
Edge + IoT21 Jan 2021 | 22
Beagleboard peeps tease dual-core 64-bit RISC-V computer with GPU, AI acceleration, more for $119
UnArmed to the teeth: Early versions to ship in April, more to follow in September
Personal Tech14 Jan 2021 | 27
SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces
Updated Plus 8GB RAM, USB, gigabit Ethernet, mini-ITX form, etc... and competition from Microchip
Science29 Oct 2020 | 27
India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker
RISC-V design can play nice with Arduino and was totally home-spun so that’s something
On-Prem24 Sep 2020 | 54
What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased
Vector-math processor core for high-perf computing promised, too
Science17 Sep 2020 | 15
Nvidia says regulators will be 'very supportive' of $40bn Arm buy despite concerns about chip designer's independence
Meanwhile, co-founder petitions UK.gov to keep HQ and jobs at home
AI + ML14 Sep 2020 | 52
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