Foundation members demo RISC-V-based implementations WHEREHot Chips 29, Flint Center for the Performing Arts, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, Calif., 95014 WHENSunday, Aug. 20 to Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 WHATRISC-V® Foundation will exhibit at Hot Chips 29, showcasing the momentum of its Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), the industry’s first open, free architecture. RISC-V founding member, SiFive, will host a session detailing the industry’s first open-source RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC). Representatives from…

Click HERE to Join the RISC-V Foundation Mail Lists First RISC-V Foundation workshop outside North America sells out The 6th RISC-V Workshop, co-hosted by NVIDIA and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) was held in Shanghai China on May 8-11, 2017.  This was our first RISC-V Foundation workshop held outside of North America and as with past workshops, this event was sold out with over 270 registered attendees. Workshop proceedings are…

Krste Asanović, Chairman, RISC-V FoundationMemory consistency models (MCMs) are known to flummox even experienced computer architects, so it is perhaps not surprising that recent news articles had some difficulty portraying the nuances behind recent findings by a team of Princeton researchers led by Professor Margaret Martonosi.  The RISC-V Foundation is publishing this article to help the RISC-V community understand the deeper implications of the Princeton study. Executive Summary The Princeton team…

Berkeley, California – Over the last year the RISC-V architecture has evolved from an academic research interest to a mainstream embedded processor technology with a rich ecosystem and a fast-growing number of real-world implementations. As a sign of this progress, a number of companies will be demonstrating commercial implementations of RISC-V products next week at Embedded World 2017, the leading international trade fair for embedded systems (March 14-16, Nuremberg, Germany) https://www.embedded-world.de/enRISC-V…

The Linley Group Announces Winners of Annual Analysts’ Choice Awards   In a news release issued today, January 12th, 2017, The Linley Group today announced the winners of its annual Analysts’ Choice Awards which recognize the top semiconductor products of 2016 in seven categories: embedded processors, mobile processors, server processors, processor-IP cores, mobile chip, networking chip, and best technology.  The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture was selected as the Best Technology of 2016.In…

RISC-V Foundation appoints inaugural Board of Directors Seven Directors Appointed to the BoardBerkeley, CA, June 9, 2016 – Today, the RISC-V Foundation is pleased to announce the Foundation’s inaugural Board of Directors.  Seven industry veterans with varied career experience within large multinational companies, smaller startup companies, non-profit organizations and academia have been appointed to serve on the RISC-V Foundation Board of Directors.The inaugural set of Directors include: Krste Asanović as…

  The RISC-V ISA has been featured in the latest edition of the Microprocessor Report written by David Kanter of The Linley Group.The RISC-V Foundation has retained distribution rights for this report.  The full report is shown below and it can be downloaded and freely distributed.