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 ...
CNX Software

Linux 6.19 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 6.19 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): No big surprises anywhere last week, so 6.19 is out as expected - ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CNX Software

Ariel OS – A Rust RTOS for IoT microcontrollers

Ariel OS is a new RTOS for microcontrollers written in Rust with support for popular hardware architectures (Arm Cortex-M, ...
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..
Electronic Design

Compact RISC-V Cores Bring the Power to Wearables, Consumer Devices

SiFive is expanding its family of high-end RISC-V CPU cores, aiming to unseat Arm’s Cortex-A series in space-constrained, performance-hungry designs such as wearables, robots, and other consumer ...