Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V | Lianne Frith, All About CircuitsThe RISC-V architecture continues to gather momentum as organizations make efforts to leverage the open-source ISA technology and innovate with new RISC-V solutions. Amid the…
High-Performance FPGA Development Platform With Hardened RISC-V Cores With the increasing adoption of RISC-V cores into a wide range of applications that require low power…
Alibaba Cloud Unveils Chip Development Platform to Support Developers with RISC-V based High-Performance SoCs | Alibaba CloudHangzhou, China, August 24, 2022 - Alibaba Cloud, the digital technologies and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has unveiled its latest chip development platform, named…
LeapFive NB2 is a New RISC-V Processor | Ian Evenden, Tom’s HardwareHardware based on the open-source RISC-V architecture keeps coming, with the latest Chinese vendor going by the name LeapFive, as spotted in the pages of CNX…
StarFive Opens Crowdfunding for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC, Starting at Just $46 | Gareth Halfacree, Hackster.ioStarFive has opened crowdfunding for its second hobbyist-focused RISC-V single-board computer (SBC), the VisionFive 2 — promising a faster device with twice the cores, a…
1400 RISC-V cores for on-chip machine learning | Nick Flaherty, EE News EuropeUntether AI in Canada has developed a AI device with over 1400 RISC-V processors called Boqueria for ‘at memory’ computing. Boqueria, discussed at the HotChips…
StarFive VisionFive 2 quad-core RISC-V SBC launched for $46 and up (Crowdfunding) | Jean Luc Aufranc, CNX SoftwareAs expected, StarFive has officially unveiled the JH7110 quad-core RISC-V processor with 3D GPU and the VisionFive 2 SBC. I just did not expect the…
Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots | Michael Larabel, PhoronixFor those making use of Kexec reboots for booting to a new kernel without fully bringing down the system to reduce the server downtime from…
Ubuntu Announces Compatibility With Second RISC-V System | Ian Evenden, Tom’s HardwareThe popular free operating system Ubuntu will now be officially available(opens in new tab) on a second line of RISC-V single-board computers, this time the VisionFive(opens in new…
StarFive VisionFive 2 single-board PC with a quad-core RISC-V chip coming in November | Brad Linder, LiliputingLast year Chinese company StarFive launched a compact single-board computer called the VisionFive v1 that’s powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core RISC-V processor. Now the company has unveiled version…
In 2021, we announced the first availability of Ubuntu running on RISC-V processors and hardware. However, the endeavor didn’t stop. Now we are proud to announce the…
T-Head DSA design in RISC-V | Chaojun Zhao, Alibaba CloudTo get better performance or lower power consumption for specific applications an acceleration ASIC IP will be added to the traditional SoC design. The ASIC…
Future Corporation Partners with AB Open for Unique RISC-V PC Project | Gareth Halfacree, AB OpenOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Custom-built RISC-V personal computer features open-hardware front panel. Halifax, UK, 30th November 2021—Open hardware consultancy AB Open has built a unique personal…
The Democratization of Chip Design | Mike Wishart and Lucio Lanza, EE TimesThe well-structured practices of semiconductor design and manufacturing have been flipped on their sides and may never be the same again. The quickly changing dynamics…
HLK-W801 board features Alibaba Xuantie XT804 based MCU with WiFi 4, Bluetooth LE 4.2 | Jean-Luc Aufranc, CNX SoftwareEarlier this month, we wrote about the 240 MHz WinnerMicro W806 Alibaba Xuantie XT804 C-Sky microcontroller with 1MB flash, 288KB SRAM found in the $2…
MIPS selects Imperas Reference Models for RISC-V Processor Verification | ImperasImperas RISC-V golden reference models and Verification IP used for functional RISC-V Processor Verification and Architectural Compatibility Testing. Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in RISC-V simulation…
Embedded vision kit employs SoC FPGA | Susan Nordyk, EDNMicrochip’s Smart Embedded Vision development platform is a full-featured kit for designing with PolarFire RISC-V SoC FPGAs. The platform enables the design of secure, reliable,…
Implementing Bluetooth® BIS and CIS LE Audio | Telink StaffTelink’s Broadcast Isochronous Stream (BIS) and Connected Isochronous Stream (CIS) LE Audio solutions change the way we experience audio and connect with the world around…
RISC-V is Inevitable | Jack Kang, SiFiveIn just a few short years, RISC-V has become a category of utmost importance in tech; but, things are just getting started. In 2014, the…
The freedom of RISC-V enables a bright future for SiFive. What a time to be in the Semiconductors and CPU industry! As an industry, we…
Meet ESP-C3-M1 and ESP-C3-M1-I ultra small ESP32-C3 mini modules | CNX Software, SponsoredHalf-year ago, Ai-Thinker launched new ESP32-C3 series modules that are fully pin-to-pin compatible with ESP8266, namely ESP-C3-12F, ESP-C3-32S, ESP-C3-01M, ESP-C3-13, ESP-C3-13U. After several months, the…
Video: RISC-V Duisburg Group – Making an authentication token IC based on the Opentitan ProjectSee Johann Heyszl speaking at the RISC-V Duisburg 4th community event on making an authentication token IC based on the Open Titan Project. Watch the…
In Hardware We Trust? From TPM to Enclave Computing on RISC-V | Emmanuel Stapf, Patrick Jauernig, Ferdinand Brasser, and Ahmad-Reza SadeghiAbstract: System-on-Chip platforms have been increasingly extended with trusted computing functionality to provide strong protection for sensitive software applications through enclaves that only require trust…
Samsung-Esperanto Concept AI-SSD Prototype | David Schor, WikiChip FuseEarlier this year we’ve detailed Esperanto’s first neural processor, the ET-SoC-1. The company’s approach for accelerating AI workloads involved integrating a large number of tiny…