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Chipmakers, Researchers, and Hobbyists Show Off the Many Faces of RISC-V

In this roundup, we review the ways RISC-V is making its mark in the computing world—from small-scale gaming projects to large-scale corporate initiatives.

September 23, 2023 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle

Gowin and Andes Team Up on First 22 nm SRAM FPGA With RISC-V Core

FPGA vendor Gowin Semiconductor has teamed with RISC-V IP developer Andes Technology to develop an SRAM FPGA SoC with a hard-instantiated RISC-V core.

September 11, 2023 by Duane Benson

AI or 5G? EdgeQ Asks, “Why Not Both?” While Building a Wireless Base Station-on-a-Chip

Adil Kidwai, VP and Head of Product Management at EdgeQ, discusses how they are aiming to redefine software-defined radios as they build what they believe is the world’s first base station-on-a-chip, using RISC-V to enable AI and 5G.

June 27, 2023 by Daniel Bogdanoff

Highlights From RISC-V Summit Europe Point to More RISC-V Abstraction

New innovations from the RISC-V Summit Europe are poised to streamline the design process for open-source processors.

June 09, 2023 by Aaron Carman

Axelera AI Raises $50 Million to ‘Mainstream’ Edge AI

Leveraging its proprietary in-memory compute scheme and RISC-V dataflow technology, Axelera AI seeks to “democratize” artificial intelligence (AI).

May 31, 2023 by Jake Hertz

SiFive Gives its WorldGuard Security Model to the RISC-V Community

SiFive hopes to strengthen the RISC-V community with the contribution of its WorldGuard model.

May 30, 2023 by Jake Hertz

5G Base-Station-on-a-Chip Company EdgeQ Closes $75M in Series-B Funding

With its 5G base-station-on-a-chip SoC leading the way, EdgeQ has closed a $75 million round of investment funding.

April 19, 2023 by Jeff Child

Two Firms Collaborate to Reimagine the Role of the Secure Element

The new architecture has the secure element as the Master, while the CPU serves as the Subordinate.

April 18, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Bluespec Teams Up with Synopsys for RISC-V Core Verification Effort

With their collaboration, the firms hope to enable faster and improved functional verification testing for Bluespec’s RISC-V cores.

January 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Andes Unveils Details of its Entry Level D23 RISC-V Processor Core

With the new processor, the company hopes to bring a feature-rich set of functions to the RISC-V community.

January 12, 2023 by Jake Hertz

From RISC-V to 3D NAND Technology—Looking Back at the Trends of 2022

Catch up on some of the technology and industry trends we’ve noticed from 2022.

December 31, 2022 by Kimber Wymore

Server-class RISC-V Core Unveiled by Ventana at RISC-V Summit

In a bid to bring RISC-V to the high-performance, data center computing space, Ventana announced their Veyron family, a series of processors positioned to offer the flexibility needed to drive innovation.

December 19, 2022 by Aaron Carman

“RISC-V is Inevitable”—A Tale of Two RISC-V Summit Keynotes

At the annual summit, leaders in the RISC-V community had much to say about RISC-V taking over the world.

December 16, 2022 by Jeff Child

Solutions Disclosed at RISC-V Summit: Security, Verification, and More

At this year’s RISC-V Summit, stakeholders rolled out solutions revolving around verification, security, and software-defined SoCs.

December 15, 2022 by Jake Hertz

With its New RISC-V Processors, SiFive Bets on Compute Density

Aiming to usurp Arm processors in size-constrained, compute hungry designs like wearables, SiFive has expanded its RISC-V “Performance” line of processors.

November 01, 2022 by Jeff Child

NASA Taps SiFive’s RISC-V Core for its Spaceflight Processor

NASA has selected SiFive’s X280 RISC-V device as the CPU core for its upcoming High-Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC) project.

September 09, 2022 by Jake Hertz

LeapFive Eyes High-performance Realm with 1.8 GHz RISC-V SoC

Setting out to enter the high-end processing niche within RISC-V, startup LeapFive has unveiled a quad-core 1.8 GHz RISC-V SoC.

August 30, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois

RISC-V Universe Grows with New GPUs, CPUs, and Development Kits

More companies continue to leverage RISC-V, a free open source instruction set architecture, to push innovation in GPUs and real-time CPU devices.

August 27, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle

Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V

The RISC-V architecture continues to gather momentum as organizations make efforts to leverage the open-source ISA technology and innovate with new RISC-V solutions.

August 24, 2022 by Lianne Frith

An Introduction to RISC-V—Understanding RISC’s Open ISA

This article is a primer into the basics of RISC-V. The open architecture philosophy is exposed, along with a technical description of the modular ISA, and some commercial RISC-V microprocessor implementations.

June 12, 2022 by Eduardo Corpeño