It’s been a banner day here at the Santa Clara Convention Center for the RISC-V Summit.
We’ve been treated to many amazing and optimistic keynotes, including one from Prahlad Venkatapuram, Senior Director of Engineering at Meta Platforms, who told us about how Meta us using RISC-V processers in its Data Center SoCs, and made a call to arms challenging RISC-V IP vendors to build to the growing needs of the data center.
There were several exciting industry announcements and news items today, too. Not least of which was that both SiFive’s Performance P470 and BeagleBoard.org’s BeagleV-Fire have been awarded Best in Show from Embedded Computing Design’s own editorial staff.