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 ...
Electronic Design

Looking at RISC-V Implementations

This TechXchange examines various platforms the utilize the RISC-V instruction set and architecture. This includes boards and modules as well as chips. SiFive put one of its RISC-V designs on a ...
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 ...
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?
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing Fast Barriers For A Shared-Memory Cluster Of 1024 RISC-V Cores

A technical paper titled “Fast Shared-Memory Barrier Synchronization for a 1024-Cores RISC-V Many-Core Cluster” was published by researchers at ETH Zürich and Università di Bologna. “Synchronization ...
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 ...
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 ...
9to5Mac

Apple exploring open-source RISC-V chips, but almost certainly not instead of ARM

An Apple job ad reveals that the company is exploring the use of RISC-V chips, an open-source processor tech that competes with the ARM architecture used for Apple’s A-series and M-series chips.
CoinTelegraph

What is RISC-V, and why does Vitalik Buterin want it for Ethereum smart contracts?

RISC-V, pronounced “risk five,” is a modern open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) based on reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. In simple terms, it’s like a blueprint that ...
Electronic Design

Major Player Enters RISC-V Arena

Why Synopsys’ entry into the RISC-V field is significant. What RISC-V families are supported by Synopsys. Synopsys just released its ARC-V family of RISC-V-based processors (see figure). Those ...
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 ...