SiFive. Designed to offer an open alternative to proprietary instruction set architectures (ISAs) in fields as diverse as ultra-low power embedded and high-performance compute, the permissively-licensed RISC-V is drawing considerable attention of late. As well as various startups and academic efforts, some major companies – Nvidia and Western Digital among them – have either begun to ship or announced they are planning to ship products which feature RISC-V cores. To read more, please visit: https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/cpus/synaptics-announces-shift-to-risc-v-processors/1/.]]>