Ars Technica

Qualcomm—one of Arm’s biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture

Arm is facing down its biggest competition ever, with the up-and-coming RISC-V architecture threatening to unseat it as the CPU at the center of almost every portable device. Now, one of Arm’s biggest ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative

First and foremost, RISC-V is a modular, open-source, instruction set definition and nothing more. RISC-V as an ecosystem is much more. The instruction set provides the encoding and semantics, but it ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Differentiation And Architecture Licenses In RISC‑V

I was discussing with a colleague about the concept of architecture license in RISC-V. I realized that, in the open-source world, it can be a little tricky to grasp. In a traditional processor IP ...
SiliconANGLE

Arm rival SiFive raises $175M to accelerate development of its alternative RISC-V chip architecture

SiFive Inc., a computer chip startup that’s developing processor technology based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, said today it has raised a hefty $175 million in a late-stage ...
Gizmochina

How RISC-V is Empowering China’s Chipmakers: A Cost-Effective, Flexible, and Future-Proof Solution

Needs continue to shape modern technology trends. For instance, with the rise in demand for semiconductors in electric vehicles, high-end servers in data centers, and artificial intelligence ...
AppleInsider

Apple investigating RISC-V instruction set architecture, job listing shows

A job listing posted to Apple's website this week reveals the company is researching RISC-V instruction set architecture solutions, suggesting future in-house chip designs might implement the ...
TechSpot

DeepComputing announces new tablet based on the RISC-V architecture

In context: After introducing the world's first RISC-V laptop, DeepComputing is now launching what is expected to be the first fully-fledged mobile platform based on the open ISA. The company is ...
Hackaday

History Of The SPARC CPU Architecture

[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Extend The ‘Unscalable’ RISC Architectures

A couple of years ago, Erik McClure (a Microsoft software developer, at the time) published a blog entitled RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable. This blog was really quite interesting and made some very ...
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.
SiliconANGLE

Customizable RISC-V chip startup Ventana exits stealth with $38M in funding

Custom silicon startup Ventana Micro Systems Inc. is emerging from stealth mode today and it’s armed with a fair bit of cash after raising $38 million in a new round of funding. The Series B round was ...