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RISC-V Revolution: How Open Processors Are Changing the CPU Market

RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture (ISA), is reshaping the global computing landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86, widely used by Intel and AMD, or ARM, which dominates mobile and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Increasing Design Flexibility With RISC-V-Based Processor IP

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...
Business Wire

SiFive To Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC at Linley Fall Virtual Processor Conference

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Dr. Yunsup Lee, CTO of SiFive, and Dr. Krste ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An Insider’s View Of Verifying Custom RISC-V Processor Cores

The challenge was to improve the performance for the HDD (hard disk drive) servo controllers with a new embedded processor core beyond the mainstream offering of the available IP providers. The key ...
Electronic Design

Trends and Insights About RISC-V

The summit has concluded, but you can watch the keynotes and sessions now. A look behind OpenTitan, the world’s first commercial-grade open-source chip, and how it could change the landscape of ...
Business Wire

Lattice Propel Design Environment Supports New RISC-V Processor and IP Cores

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced a new version of Lattice Propel™, a design environment for ...
Fudzilla

Chinese boffins create RISC-V CPU in five hours

A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI in which they tell the epic adventure of how they created a new ...
DATAQUEST

Breker and Frontgrade Gaisler ally on high-reliability RISC-V fault tolerant processor core

Built on the RISC-V architecture, the processor is at the heart of the GR765, Frontgrade’s next generation radiation-hardened ...
SiliconANGLE

Qualcomm, other chip giants launch RISC-V processor venture

A group of prominent chipmakers is forming a new venture to broaden the adoption of the RISC-V processor architecture. The venture, which was unveiled by its backers this morning, will initially focus ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V to Launch into Space

This article is part of the TechXchange: RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative. SiFive, a startup developing IP based on the RISC-V architecture, said NASA has selected it to supply the core CPU for ...
Ars Technica

Move over, ARM: BeagleV is a $150 RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

BeagleV is an affordable way to get your feet wet with RISC-V Linux computing. RISC-V is a CPU ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) family, like x86_64 (the architecture in most PCs and laptops) or ARM ...