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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Is Thriving: Here’s What You Need to Know

RISC-V, the open-standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) conceived by UC Berkeley developers in 2010, is going from strength to strength. The RISC in RISC-V stands for Reduced Instruction Set ...
DatacenterDynamics

Meta acquires RISC-V chip startup Rivos – report

Meta has acquired RISC-V chip startup Rivos to help boost its internal semiconductor development efforts, per a report from ...
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 ...
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 ...
Electronic Specifier

RISC-V Tech Market size worth USD 17.40 billion by 2034

Open-standard instruction set architectures (ISAs) are becoming common in the semiconductor industry. The shift is being led ...
Electronic Design

New Dev Platforms Bring RISC-V to the Forefront of Innovation (Part 1)

More companies are on track to adopt the RISC-V architecture for new applications that range from robotics to home automation. What is RISC-V? What are some of the popular RISC-V platforms for ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing Cryptographic Algorithms for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture in Two Cases

This new technical paper titled “Symmetric Cryptography on RISC-V: Performance Evaluation of Standardized Algorithms” was published by researchers at Intel, North Arizona University and Google, with ...
VentureBeat

How RISC-V is creating a globally neutral, open source processor architecture

Arm dominates the microprocessor architecture business, as its licensees have shipped 150 billion chips to date and are shipping 50 billion more in the next two years. But RISC-V is challenging that ...
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 ...
Nasdaq

The Industry’s First SoC FPGA Development Kit Based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture is Now Available

Microchip’s PolarFire® SoC FPGA Icicle Kit enables the broad RISC-V-based Mi-V ecosystem for the industry’s lowest-power FPGA CHANDLER, Ariz., Sept. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The rising adoption of ...