The computing industry has reached a significant milestone with the ratification of the 1.0 RISC-V Vector Specification. This development marks the beginning of a new era in computing efficiency, as ...

RISC-V processors, which until several years ago were considered auxiliary processors for specific functions, appear to be garnering support for an entirely different type of role — high-performance ...

RISC-V cores are beginning to show up in heterogeneous SoCs and packages, shifting from one-off standalone designs toward mainstream applications where they are used for everything from accelerators ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. For decades, chip architectures have been dominated by a pair of ...

SiFive, a RISC-V processor design firm, unveiled two new chip designs aimed at bringing a high-performance computing solution to various industries. The announcement of the SiFive Performance P870 and ...

With RISC-V International, the body controlling the RISC-V instruction set, located in Switzerland for the past five years, RISC-V now has just as much right to call itself indigenous to Europe as ...

What is RISC-V? The basics of RISC-V. Applications and uses of RISC-V. RISC-V is described as an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) that's based on the reduced instruction set computer ...

Though the RISC-V Summit North America is over, you can peruse the videos of most of the keynotes and sessions here. The list is quite long, so we picked a few and included them in this space, such as ...

Old-timers might recall the idea of "RISC" as a once-upon-a-time processor design ideology. RISC processors were mostly used for servers from Sun Microsystems, DEC, and other companies of a bygone era ...

Understanding RISC‑V traps is essential for Chip Designers building RISC‑V CPUs, microcontrollers, and complex SoCs. It’s equally important for Embedded Engineers who develop and debug software stacks ...