Intel Looking to Acquire SiFive for $2B
Intel maybe among several companies courting SiFive for a potential acquisition or further investment.
The Promise & Pitfalls of Open Hardware Development
The democratization of hardware design may be upon us.
Open Source RISC-V Hardware Changes the Game
The RISC-V open-source hardware effort started as a project at UC Berkley, where the first RISC design happened to have…
64-bit RISC-V Core Claims to Outperform Apple M1 SoC
Micro Magic says its RISC-V core outperforms Apple M1 and Arm Cortex-A9 on CoreMarks per Watt...
Q&A with RISC-V CTO Mark Himelstein
RISC-V CTO Mark Himelstein talks about importance of ecosystem, software and focus on IoT, automotive, HPC and cloud servers...
32/64-bit Embedded CPUs: The Third Era Begins
From proprietary to open source architectures, the embedded CPU and its associated business models have evolved — and so has…
Trade War Concerns Push RISC-V to Move HQ
Members vote unanimously to move HQ to Switzerland as they face challenges from customers about source of IP
Arm Opens Instruction Set Architecture
After decades, Arm has finally decided to allow licensees to build their own custom instructions, which are often useful to…
Can Nanotubes Take Us Beyond Moore’s Law?
MIT's work on carbon nanotube field-effect transistors validates a promising path towards practical beyond-silicon electronic systems.
Chinese OEMs Look to Risc-V to Replace Arm MCUs
The microcontrollers are direct replacements for Arm MCUs, aimed at Chinese OEMs who are being cut off from getting Arm…
RISC-V: Not Just an Academic Project
The recent RISC-V Workshop in Zurich gave us a glimpse of where we are in its evolution
RISC-V Adoption to get a Boost from FreeStart
The company has implemented a program that enables designers to try RISC-V for free using its N22 core, with no…