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RISC-V Vector Processing: A New Era in Computing Efficiency

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 ...
Forbes

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) ...
Forbes

SiFive Expands Its RISC-V Intelligence Family To Address Exploding AI Workloads

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. SiFive just announced an array of new additions to its ...
Business Wire

Imperas Delivers First RISC-V Simulator for New Vector and Bit Manipulation Specifications to Lead Customers

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in virtual platforms and high-performance software simulation, today announced the delivery of its updated simulator for the RISC-V ...
Business Wire

SiFive Performance P550 Core Sets New Standard as Highest Performance RISC-V Processor IP

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions, today launched the new SiFive Performance family of processors. The SiFive Performance ...
ExtremeTech

Intel Will Offer SiFive RISC-V CPUs on 7nm, Plans Own Dev Platform

Intel and SiFive are teaming up to make RISC-V platforms more widely available and bring high-performance RISC-V CPUs to 7nm. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...
Liliputing

risc-v vector

RISC-V chip designer SiFive is introducing two new processors that the company says are designed for high-performance, energy-efficient applications such as wearables, smart home devices, virtual ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Vectorization And Potential for HPC

A new technical paper titled “Test-driving RISC-V Vector hardware for HPC” was published by researchers at University of Edinburgh. “Whilst the RISC-V Vector extension (RVV) has been ratified, at the ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

RISC-V International Association is developing a number of optional extensions intended to support specific industries as well as the overall computing industry in new and unprecedented ways. Three ...
Electronic Design

Checking Out the RISC-V Summit North America 2025

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 ...
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 ...
VentureBeat

RISC-V grows open source processor membership 130% in 2021

RISC-V International said it has grown during the pandemic as its RISC-V open source processor membership popped 130% in 2021. The nonprofit group's membership has grown from a ragtag group of feisty ...