Liliputing

SiFive says its next RISC-V processor outperforms ARM Cortex-A78

When RISC-V chip designer SiFive introduced its Performance P550 processor in June, the company said it was the highest-performance processor based on RISC-V architecture to date. Now the company is ...
TechSpot

Arm and RISC-V: Can there only be one?

In almost every discussion about RISC-V's position in the ecosystem, the instruction set architecture (ISA) is often seen as a direct competitor to Arm. Most people view the two ISAs as being engaged ...
Electronic Design

SiFive Forms Business Unit to Build Chips With RISC-V and Arm Inside

SiFive said the business unit, called OpenFive, would work with customers to manufacture chips based on the 5-nanometer node or less advanced foundry processes as well as 2.5D advanced packaging.
Electronic Design

SiFive Raises $175 Million to Take Fight to Arm with RISC-V

This article is part of the TechXchange: RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative. SiFive, a startup designing CPU cores based on the open RISC-V architecture, has raised $175 million in its latest ...
VentureBeat

RISC-V grows globally as an alternative to Arm and its license fees

ARM is the most successful microprocessor architecture on the planet, with its licensees shipping billions of chips a year. But a rival has emerged in the past few years called RISC-V, a new kind of ...
Liliputing

SiFive Performance P650 RISC-V processor revealed as a challenger to ARM Cortex-A77

At the RISC-V Summit in California today, chip designer SiFive revealed its new Performance P650 processor. According to SiFive its latest offering is 50% more powerful than the Performance P550, ...
Digi Times

Arm retires Cortex brand, teases proprietary chip as RISC-V heat rises

Arm Holdings has announced a major rebranding initiative and confirmed plans to enter the chip design space—a strategic pivot that could position the UK-based architecture firm in direct competition..
Android Authority

Android will officially support the RISC-V architecture, and that's a big deal

Google has announced that it will support the RISC-V architecture. This is an alternative computing architecture to Arm, which powers virtually all smartphones. Android only supports two computing ...
Ars Technica

SiFive’s brand-new P550 is one of the world’s fastest RISC-V CPUs

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...
TechSpot

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board adds RISC-V CPU cores, security, and more

Size Matters: The original Raspberry Pi Pico was released in January 2021 as the first Raspberry Pi board based on a single microcontroller chip design. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is now launching an ...
CNX Software

Linux 7.0 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

The last week of the release continued the same “lots of small fixes” trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I’ve tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out. I suspect it’s a lot of AI tool ...