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 ...

Bolt wants to take on Nvidia by building a RISC-V graphics processor

Bolt Graphics wants to take on Nvidia and AMD by building a RISC-V graphics processor ...
VentureBeat

SiFive moves into high-end RISC-V processors with P650 design

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More SiFive, a pioneer of processors based on RISC-V computing, unveiled its ...
ExtremeTech

Rumor: Intel May Buy RISC-V CPU Designer SiFive to Fend off ARM

Intel is rumored to have made a $2.1B offer for RISC-V chip designer SiFive. SiFive is not a chip manufacturer itself. Somewhat like ARM, it designs CPUs for market and then sells those designs to ...
EDN

RISC-V venture in Germany to accelerate design ecosystem

Nearly a month before Arm’s $60 billion-plus IPO, here comes a significant threat to its CPU design and licensing business. Especially when the Cambridge, UK-based processor architecture powerhouse is ...
Design And Reuse

SiFive to Power Next-Gen RISC-V AI Data Centers with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion

With the addition of NVIDIA NVLink Fusion, SiFive computing platforms can connect directly to NVIDIA GPUs and accelerators using a coherent, high-bandwidth interconnect to reduce latency, share data ...
Ars Technica

SiFive’s brand-new P550 is one of the world’s fastest RISC-V CPUs

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...
VentureBeat

Imagination Technologies unveils Catapult RISC-V CPU family

Imagination Technologies has announced Catapult, a new family of RISC-V central processing unit (CPU) designs aimed at the next generation of computing. The Kings Langley, United Kingdom-based company ...
ExtremeTech

Russia to Build 8-Core RISC-V CPUs for Laptops, Government Systems

RISC-V has attracted a great deal of interest across the computing industry for its open-source instruction set architecture and rapidly evolving ecosystem. There are reports that Russia plans to ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V Welcomes Another Major Player

Having a balanced portfolio allows Imagination Technologies to deliver a complete solution rather than just a portion. It has the expertise in CPU design and excels in other areas as well. Its latest ...
Electronic Design

Adding Soft-Core RISC-V to FPGAs Improves Programmability

Advantages of using a soft-core RISC-V processor. The type of performance you can expect from using a soft-core RISC-V processor on the Speedster 7t. A full list of configurable features available on ...
Forbes

Ventana Micro Launches Server-Class RISC-V CPU, Challenging Arm

The company announces the industry’s highest performing RISC-V CPU for SOC designers building domain-specific chips. The semiconductor industry is on the verge of a major transition to chiplet-based ...