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RISC-V Rollouts Abound at This Week’s North America RISC-V Summit

Reporting a “banner year” for adoption, these RISC-V developments show the versatility of the ISA.

November 10, 2023 by Aaron Carman

Codasip’s New RISC-V Processor Family Dials In on Custom Compute

The latest RISC-V IP makes processing power customizable for a wide span of embedded applications.

October 23, 2023 by Aaron Carman

Startup HaiLa Aims Its Ambient IoT Tech at a ‘No Batteries’ IoT Future

Emerging from stealth mode, HaiLa believes they can enable a future of IoT nodes without batteries.

August 01, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Rambus Serves up Quantum-safe IP Solutions To Fend off Attacks

The new Root of Trust IP from Rambus offers post-quantum cryptography hardware solutions.

July 12, 2023 by Jake Hertz

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

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

SiFive Seeks to Fuel Next-Gen Designs with Automotive RISC-V Cores

With its new portfolio of automotive RISC-V processor cores, SiFive aims to solve challenges in the design of evolving digital cars.

September 15, 2022 by Jake Hertz

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

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

RISC-V Shines at Embedded World With New Specs and Processors

At Embedded World 2022 today, RISC-V activity heats up as RISC-V International reveals four new spec approvals and SiFive unveils a new version of its X280 processor.

June 21, 2022 by Jeff Child

Automotive IC Solutions Roll for Enhanced Security and ADAS

Next-gen automotive system design keeps getting more challenging. To help engineers keep pace, three chip vendors are serving up solutions aimed at enhanced security, ADAS, and simplified door control.

April 30, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.