Liliputing

SiFive says its next RISC-V processor outperforms ARM Cortex-A78

When RISC-V chip designer SiFive introduced its Performance P550 processor in June, the company said it was the highest-performance processor based on RISC-V architecture to date. Now the company is ...
Liliputing

SiFive Performance P650 RISC-V processor revealed as a challenger to ARM Cortex-A77

At the RISC-V Summit in California today, chip designer SiFive revealed its new Performance P650 processor. According to SiFive its latest offering is 50% more powerful than the Performance P550, ...
TechSpot

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board adds RISC-V CPU cores, security, and more

Size Matters: The original Raspberry Pi Pico was released in January 2021 as the first Raspberry Pi board based on a single microcontroller chip design. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is now launching an ...
Electronic Design

SiFive Raises $175 Million to Take Fight to Arm with RISC-V

This article is part of the TechXchange: RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative. SiFive, a startup designing CPU cores based on the open RISC-V architecture, has raised $175 million in its latest ...
CNX Software

Linux 6.19 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 6.19 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): No big surprises anywhere last week, so 6.19 is out as expected - ...
Electronic Design

SiFive Forms Business Unit to Build Chips With RISC-V and Arm Inside

SiFive said the business unit, called OpenFive, would work with customers to manufacture chips based on the 5-nanometer node or less advanced foundry processes as well as 2.5D advanced packaging.
Digi Times

Arm retires Cortex brand, teases proprietary chip as RISC-V heat rises

Arm Holdings has announced a major rebranding initiative and confirmed plans to enter the chip design space—a strategic pivot that could position the UK-based architecture firm in direct competition..
EDN

RISC-V’s embedded foray with a 32-bit MCU development

One of the largest vendors of embedded processors has independently developed a CPU core for the 32-bit general-purpose RISC-V market; it can be used as the main CPU or on-chip subsystem and can even ...