Interview with RISC-V International: High-Performance Chips, AI, Ecosystem Fragmentation, and The FutureRISC-V is an industry standard instruction set architecture (ISA) born in UC Berkeley. RISC-V is the fifth iteration in the lineage of historic RISC processors.…
RISC-V Oozes Confidence with RVA23 Profile RatificationLast week’s RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., had an air of confidence that we have not seen at previous summits. There was much for…
4 Highlights From the RISC-V Summit North AmericaIn this roundup, we discuss several announcements from last week's summit pushing RISC-V adoption and processing power. Four companies, including Andes Technology, RISC-V International, Arteris,…
DeepComputing and Andes Technology Partner to Develop the World’s First RISC-V AI PC with 7nm QiLai SoC, Featuring Ubuntu DesktopSan Jose, CA — Oct 22, 2024 — DeepComputing, a pioneer in RISC-V innovation, today announced a strategic partnership with Andes Technology Corporation, a leading provider of high-efficiency, low-power…
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI. RISC-V pointer masking can be used…
Denso seals Quadric deal for RISC-V AI coreLeading Japanese automotive supplier Denso is expanding its semiconductor business through a development license agreement for a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) AI core from Quadric…
RISC-V CPU demoed with RX 7900 XTX GPU in Debian Linux — AMD flagship GPU paired with Milk-V Megrez board and SiFive P550 coresRISC-V firm Milk-V demonstrated that it can get AMD’s RX 7900 XTX graphics card to work on one of its RISC-V boards. The PC shown in the…
RISC-V Forum Shenzhen: Unleashing Power of Electronics Making to Lead Global Open-Source InnovationsOn October 17, the inaugural RISC-V Eco-system Development Forum, held as part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Semiconductor Industry Expo, took place at…
Codasip Unveils L730 Automotive-Grade Embedded RISC-V CoreMUNICH, Germany, Oct 28, 2024 – Codasip has announced its new L730 core. Codasip L730 is a high-quality, high-performance embedded core that meets automotive safety and security…
Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My CareerBy: David Patterson I started my career at Hughes Aircraft in 1972 while working on my Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).…
Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024Although Nvidia's GPUs rely on proprietary CUDA cores that feature their instruction set architecture and support for various data formats, these cores are controlled by…
Nvidia projected to ship roughly a billion RISC-V cores in its products by year’s endIn brief: Nvidia has been quietly using the RISC-V architecture to power numerous computing devices, and deploying a substantial number of cores to paying customers. In…
Co-developing Machine Learning with a RISC-V vector core using Renode for Google Research | AntmicroThe landscape of Machine Learning software libraries and models is evolving rapidly, and to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for memory and compute while managing latency,…
Accelerating ML Recommendation With Over 1,000 RISC-V/Tensor Processors on Esperanto’s ET-SoC-1 Chip | David R. Ditzel, Esperanto Technologies IncMachine learning (ML) recommendation workloads have demanding performance and memory requirements and, to date, have largely been run on servers with x86 processors. To accelerate…
RISC-V Compressed Instructions for SERV | Abdul Wadood, LFX Mentorship at RISC-V InternationalIn Spring 2022, various mentorship projects were offered by RISC-V International on the LFX platform of the Linux Foundation. I got selected for one of…
Everything RISC-V at the Design Automation Conference! | RISC-V InternationalThe Design Automation Conference is here and we're thrilled to share look at all the RISC-V happenings during the show. If you are interested in…
Progress in Porting Android onto RISC-V: Android 12 upgrade, vendor modules and TensorFlow Lite | Mao Han, Alibaba CloudLast year Alibaba T-Head reported that the basic features of Android had been ported onto RISC-V-based Xuantie cores. Since then more effort has been spent…
Operational Technology (OT) and Transportation and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are often forced to make concessions regarding security and updates to deliver critical functionality without…
DeepComputing and Xcalibyte Open Pre-Orders for First Native RISC-V Development Laptop; Quantities Limited | Xcalibyte and Deep ComputingROMA development platform features forthcoming quad-core RISC-V processor for fastest, seamless RISC-V software development experience. DeepComputing and Xcalibyte today opened pre-orders for the industry’s first…
SoC Design Challenge: the first engineering hackathon for students in Russia | Nickolay Ternovoy, SyntacoreYADRO and Syntacore hosted the first ever engineering hackathon for students in Russia. The event was organized in association with National Research University of Electronic…
Democratizing Chiplet-Based Processor Design | Ventana Micro SystemsBy Bob Wheeler, Principal Analyst, The Linley Group Chiplet-based designs promise reduced development costs and faster time to market, but they’ve been exclusive to large…
The RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) Version 1.0 was ratified by RISC-V International in 2021. Since this public debut, there has been growing excitement about vector…
GreenWaves will Demonstrate Live the Ground-breaking AI and DSP Demos on its Ultra Low Power Chip at Embedded World 2022 | GreenWaves TechnologiesLocated in the micro-and nano-electronics hotspot of Grenoble, GreenWaves is a fabless semiconductor startup that designs and brings to market advanced ultra-low-power AI and DSP…
Overtake the Competition in Automotive Design with RISC-V Innovations | CodasipIn conversation with Jamie Broome, Codasip VP of Automotive Jamie Broome recently joined Codasip as VP Automotive with more than 20 years of semiconductor…
Co-developing Machine Learning with a RISC-V vector core using Renode for Google Research | AntmicroThe landscape of Machine Learning software libraries and models is evolving rapidly, and to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for memory and compute while managing latency,…
Accelerating ML Recommendation With Over 1,000 RISC-V/Tensor Processors on Esperanto’s ET-SoC-1 Chip | David R. Ditzel, Esperanto Technologies IncMachine learning (ML) recommendation workloads have demanding performance and memory requirements and, to date, have largely been run on servers with x86 processors. To accelerate…
RISC-V Compressed Instructions for SERV | Abdul Wadood, LFX Mentorship at RISC-V InternationalIn Spring 2022, various mentorship projects were offered by RISC-V International on the LFX platform of the Linux Foundation. I got selected for one of…
Everything RISC-V at the Design Automation Conference! | RISC-V InternationalThe Design Automation Conference is here and we're thrilled to share look at all the RISC-V happenings during the show. If you are interested in…
Progress in Porting Android onto RISC-V: Android 12 upgrade, vendor modules and TensorFlow Lite | Mao Han, Alibaba CloudLast year Alibaba T-Head reported that the basic features of Android had been ported onto RISC-V-based Xuantie cores. Since then more effort has been spent…
Operational Technology (OT) and Transportation and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are often forced to make concessions regarding security and updates to deliver critical functionality without…
DeepComputing and Xcalibyte Open Pre-Orders for First Native RISC-V Development Laptop; Quantities Limited | Xcalibyte and Deep ComputingROMA development platform features forthcoming quad-core RISC-V processor for fastest, seamless RISC-V software development experience. DeepComputing and Xcalibyte today opened pre-orders for the industry’s first…
SoC Design Challenge: the first engineering hackathon for students in Russia | Nickolay Ternovoy, SyntacoreYADRO and Syntacore hosted the first ever engineering hackathon for students in Russia. The event was organized in association with National Research University of Electronic…
Democratizing Chiplet-Based Processor Design | Ventana Micro SystemsBy Bob Wheeler, Principal Analyst, The Linley Group Chiplet-based designs promise reduced development costs and faster time to market, but they’ve been exclusive to large…
The RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) Version 1.0 was ratified by RISC-V International in 2021. Since this public debut, there has been growing excitement about vector…
GreenWaves will Demonstrate Live the Ground-breaking AI and DSP Demos on its Ultra Low Power Chip at Embedded World 2022 | GreenWaves TechnologiesLocated in the micro-and nano-electronics hotspot of Grenoble, GreenWaves is a fabless semiconductor startup that designs and brings to market advanced ultra-low-power AI and DSP…
Overtake the Competition in Automotive Design with RISC-V Innovations | CodasipIn conversation with Jamie Broome, Codasip VP of Automotive Jamie Broome recently joined Codasip as VP Automotive with more than 20 years of semiconductor…
[VIDEO] Join us for This Year’s RISC-V SummitFrom the IoT edge to the depths of space, RISC-V enables groundbreaking innovations. Join us at the RISC-V Summit 2024, October 22–23, at the Santa…
With the need for more robust, quantum-resilient security the company’s new platform represents a significant advancement in securing critical data and infrastructure against the threats…
DeepComputing is excited to announce the official launch of the DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II, a groundbreaking product designed to empower the RISC-V community with an advanced…
Microchip unveils PIC64 family of RISC-V multicore processor chips for Earth and for spaceLiterally the day after writing the article about the Microchip PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit based on the company’s PolarFire SoC FPGA, Microchip gave me a…
Wendell checks out the NanoKVM. It's so tiny! Check it out here: https://sipeed.com/nanokvm Watch the video.
Harnessing power of RISC-V, Generative AI: Expert hardware security architect Avani Dave’s visionThe convergence of RISC-V architecture and generative AI is paving the way for revolutionary advancements in hardware security. These technologies promise to enhance the resilience…
Called P870-D, it is an update of the non-data centre P870, with support added for AMBA CHI protocol. “By harnessing a standard CHI bus,” said…
SiFive has modified its high end RISC-V core for more scalability in datacentre AI chip designs. The P870-D datacentre RISC-V IP is a variant of…
Akeana exits stealth mode with comprehensive RISC-V processor portfolioWith the support from A-list investors including Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, and Fidelity the company has announced the formal availability of its expansive line of IP…
Santa Clara, Calif., Aug. 14, 2024 – Today SiFive, Inc., the gold standard for RISC-V computing, announced its new SiFive PerformanceTM P870-D datacenter processor to meet…
Akeana, the company trying to change semiconductor design, has raised over $100 million in funding in the past three years to design RISC-V processors. Now…