A few weeks ago I finally received the HiFive Unmatched from SiFive as their flagship RISC-V development board. As a reminder this is their mini-ITX…

Data center workloads are quickly evolving, demanding high compute density with varying mixes of compute, memory and IO capability. This is driving architectures that are…

Background I was in the final year of my undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering when I learnt out about the RISC-V Mentorship program from the RISC-V…

Intel's Nios V soft processor for its FPGAs uses the RISC-V: RV32IA architecture with atomic extensions, 5-stage pipeline and AXI4 interfaces. Intel has developed a…

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Startups focused on data center chips had a big month in September. A new emergent from stealth promises to accelerate big data analytics, and startups…

Sipeed has released details on a new system-on-module board built around the RISC-V Allwinner D1 chip — and it's aiming to bring the Linux-capable device…

RISC-V is the hot and upcoming architecture in the embedded space. While a majority of embedded developers have earned their chops programming for ARM processors…

RISC-V is so much more than just an ISA for processors. Because of the openness of RISC-V, we are seeing an increase in innovation around…

The CHERI project at SRI International and the University of Cambridge are pleased to announce our second CHERI reference software-stack release. The release supports the…

SiPearl has opened a design centre in Grenoble with the goal of recruiting 50 engineers on the site by the end of 2022. The company…

High-performance computing (HPC) has a very different dynamic to the mainstream. It enables classes of computation of strategic importance to nation states and their agencies,…

Presented by Ibrahim Abu Kharmeh, Huawei Bristol, UK RISC-V is an open source fast growing ISA designed at the University of California, Berkeley. The ISA…

Processor extensibility with an external hardware module like FPGA or DSP core isn’t a new concept. However, there are no existing hardware solutions that allow…

April 20, 2021 -- Gothenburg, Sweden – CAES Gaisler, a leader in advanced mission-critical electronics, announced today that it has received a contract from the…

April 19, 2021 — BSC researchers lead eProcessor, a project that will create a 100% European out-of-order (OoO) RISC-V core to produce new embedded High…

Loongson is a Chinese company better known for its MIPS processors, and we often see the company being mentioned in mainline Linux changelogs with regards to…

Pervasive computing — IoT, edge, cloud, data center, and back PC maker Dell Technologies is spinning off 81% equity ownership of VMWare to two standalone public companies. VMWare, founded in…

Silex Insight and Andes Technology extend strategic partnership to deliver flexible and scalable Root-of-Trust security IP solution​ Silex Insight and Andes Technology offer the eSecure…

In its continued effort to reduce reliance on foreign technologies (particularly U.S.-made), China has been mostly focusing on getting up to speed with the hardware…

AUSTIN, Texas, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Inspire Semiconductor, Inc. (InspireSemi™) announced today that two customers have placed pre-orders for its Gen2 compute accelerator solution for blockchain,…

University of Michigan’s Todd Austin explains how his team’s processor defeated every attack in DARPA's hardware hacking challenge Last summer, 580 cybersecurity researchers spent 13,000 hours trying…