Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

NEW DELHI: The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has the potential to open the tightly locked central processing unit (CPU) architecture, enabling startups and companies to develop chips for ...

RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture (ISA), is reshaping the global computing landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86, widely used by Intel and AMD, or ARM, which dominates mobile and ...

Microchip has announced its first 64bit processors, picking the RISC-V instruction set for the initial parts: an octa-core for space and a industrial quad-core. Although, “future PIC64 families will ...

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...

Intel has announced that it will launch a $ 1 billion fund for 'startups developing technology for the foundry ecosystem.' At the same time, Intel also announced its investment in open source RISC-V, ...

For many applications, allocating performance among all of the tasks in a system-on-chip (SoC) design is much easier and provides greater design flexibility with multiple CPUs than with just one ...

The flexibility of the Instruction Set Architecture to address specific workloads, coupled with the inclusion of vector extensions in the open-source instructions to address AI, drive its ...

Achronix Semiconductor, a developer of FPGAs and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and Bluespec, a supplier of RISC-V tools and silicon IP, have announced a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors that ...