SiFive P550 HiFive motherboard shipping, sold out
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Great name for a dev computer

SiFive and generally RISC-V  are recently getting a lot of attention. With ARM and X86 well established in the market, many see RISC-V as a healthy alternative. The company is pacing out strongly as it stands out with its broad portfolio and being produced in silicon with billions of devices shipped,  from the many RISC-V competitors. Now the company announced the availability of the world’s highest performance RISC-V development board simply called SiFive HiFive Premier P550 board.

Nvidia expects to have used a billion RISC-V cores this year
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It is not all about CUDA

By the end of the year Nvidia will have shipped a billion RISC-V cores under the bonnet of its GPUS.

RISC-V could go the way of Arm and x86
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Monday, 15 July 2024 10:43

RISC-V could go the way of Arm and x86


Torvalds’ prophecy

The softly spoken Linux prophet, Linus Torvalds has been consulting his bones and concluded that RISC-V might fall into the same development chasm between hardware and software developers seen by Arm and x86.

Android heading towards RISC-V
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Wednesday, 18 October 2023 11:22

Android heading towards RISC-V


Unless the US government, Arm and Intel can stop it

The Android ecosystem is moving toward a RISC-V future with OS support underway, and Qualcomm is stepping up to announce the first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC.

RISC-V International warns about US interference in development
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No different than other open technology standards like Ethernet

The chief executive of RISC-V International has warned that US efforts to corner the chip market under the guise of security could have a chilling effect on open standards and the development of better chips.

Qualcomm shows more interest in RISC-V
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Monday, 07 August 2023 12:03

Qualcomm shows more interest in RISC-V


Arm should be worried

One of Arm's biggest customers Qualcomm is trying out RISC-V and getting involved in a joint venture dedicated to the architecture.

Chinese boffins create RISC-V CPU in five hours
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AI is risky business

A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI in which they tell the epic adventure of how they created  a new industrial-scale RISC-V CPU in under five hours.

Samsung joins RISC-V Software Ecosystem
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Thursday, 01 June 2023 11:16

Samsung joins RISC-V Software Ecosystem


May the road Rise with you

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has joined RISE (RISC-V Software Ecosystem), an open-source software development project to build and develop an advanced semiconductor ecosystem.

PINE64 updates Star64 single-board computer
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Gets a quad-core RISC-V processor

PINE64 has an update about their Star64 single-board computer with a quad-core RISC-V processor: it will be available on April 4th in two configurations: 4GB and 8GB LPDDR4 memory for $69.99 and $89.99.

Asus Tinker Board V is the first one with 64-bit RISC-V processor
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1GHz Andes AX45MP single-core

Asus' Tinker Board lineup has been around for quite some time but now, we have the first one that will be using a RISC-V processor, the Asus Tinker V.