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

Bolt Graphics is pressing ahead with its plan to challenge Nvidia and AMD by building a graphics processor around a RISC-V ...
Electronic Design

Examining the RISC-V Architecture

RISC-V is an open-source instruction set definition managed by RISC-V International. This TechXchange includes content that delves into the architecture and design of a RISC-V processor core. How did ...
ZDNet

Rediscovering RISC-V: Apple M1 sparks renewed interest in non-x86 architectures

RISC-V is, like x86 and ARM, an instruction set architecture (ISA). Unlike x86 and ARM, it is a free and open standard that anyone can use without getting locked into someone else's processor designs ...
Forbes

RISC-V’s Ascent Could Reshape The Global Compute Landscape

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. For decades, chip architectures have been dominated by a pair of ...
Electronic Design

Ada and RISC-V Secure Nvidia’s Future

Nvidia tends to hype the machine-learning (ML) capabilities of its system-on-chip (SoC) solutions like its DRIVE AGX Orin that targets automotive applications. Often lost in the mix is the security ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Wants All Your Cores

RISC-V is no longer content to disrupt the CPU industry. It is waging war against every type of processor integrated into an SoC or advanced package, an ambitious plan that will face stiff competition ...
EDN

Early Design Exploration of RISC-V Platform for Performance and Power Consumption

RISC-V instruction set architecture aims at increasing the reusability of software across different applications and platforms. A modern system-on-chip (SoC) platform has dozens of instruction set ...
ZDNet

RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs

A decade ago, an idea was born in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley to create a lingua franca for computer chips, a set of instructions that would be used by all chipmakers and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Coding And Debugging RISC-V

As monolithic device scaling continues to wind down and evolve toward increasingly heterogeneous designs, it has created an inflection point for chip architects to create customized cores that are ...
The Next Platform

Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer

A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. More importantly, it demonstrates a potential ...
TechSpot

Qualcomm announces RISC-V chip for Wear OS-based wearable devices

Highly anticipated: After betting on the future of RISC-V with an industry-wide alliance, Qualcomm is now bringing its first chip based on the open-source architecture to the mass market. The American ...
Digital Trends

ARM vs. RISC-V: Is one better than the other?

If you wanted to make a CPU, and you’re not AMD or Intel, there are two real choices: ARM and RISC-V. But what are the differences between the two, and why do companies choose one over the other?