Bolt wants to take on Nvidia by building a RISC-V graphics processor

Bolt Graphics is pressing ahead with its plan to challenge Nvidia and AMD by building a graphics processor around a RISC-V ...
Liliputing

Bit-Brick Cluster K1 lets you build a 32-core RISC-V computer (by clustering 4 SpacemiT K1 boards)

At least that’s the idea behind the Bit-Brick Cluster K1. Real-world performance will obviously vary depending on the task. But for applications that support parallel processing, this cluster board ...
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Alibaba launches RISC-V-based XuanTie C930 server CPU — AI/HPC chip ships this month, more designs to follow

Alibaba announced its newest CPU release this week with the XuanTie C930. The new RISC-V processor is built for AI-HPC workloads, and Alibaba describes it as its 'first server-grade processor' in an ...
DIGITIMES

RISC-V's rise: A third CPU ecosystem in 5-10 years?

Bao Yungang, vice director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology and chief scientist at the Beijing Open Source Chip Academy, predicts RISC-V will become the world's ...
SiliconANGLE

GlobalFoundries buys RISC-V chip firm MIPS to accelerate its AI ambitions

U.S. chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. is moving into the RISC-V processor business after announcing plans to buy the chip developer MIPS Technology LLC for an undisclosed price. GlobalFoundries said it ...
The Next Platform

Condor Technology To Fly “Cuzco” RISC-V CPU Into The Datacenter

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and ...
Yahoo

Hong Kong embraces RISC-V open-source chip design to secure spot in China semiconductors

Hong Kong is betting on the RISC-V open-source chip architecture to drive innovation and secure a position in China's semiconductor landscape amid escalating US chip restrictions. The city, which is ...
Forbes

Meet The Hong Kong Billionaire-Backed Chinese Startup That’s Making Chips Without U.S. Technology

Shanghai Starfive Technology’s chips are based on RISC-V, which, unlike Intel’s x86 and Arm, is an open-source design that’s not controlled by a Western company. China has for years been trying to ...
CRN

Qualcomm Acquires RISC-V Chip Designer Ventana To Boost CPU Efforts

The chip design giant says Ventana’s expertise in RISC-V, a free and open alternative to the Arm and x86 instruction set architectures, will enhance its CPU engineering capabilities and complement ...
Reuters

Exclusive: China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide, sources say

RISC-V is used to design anything from smartphone chips to advanced processors for AI Chinese chip design firms have embraced it Beijing has yet to mention it in policy Shares in Chinese chip firms ...
Liliputing

GlobalFoundries to acquire MIPS, bringing together RISC-V chip design and manufacturing

Semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries has announced plans to acquire chip design company MIPS. While GlobalFoundries says it plans to continue to operate MIPS as a standalone business, ...
AOL

Exclusive-China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide, sources say

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China plans to issue guidance to encourage the use of open-source RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time, two sources briefed on the matter said, as Beijing accelerates ...