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RISC-V Summit Europe Embracing the Inevitable - News

March 20, 2023

Barcelona, Spain. RISC-V International will be highlighting the latest RISC-V innovations across industry and the research community during the first ever RISC-V Summit Europe. The summit will be in Barcelona during the 5th and 9th of June 2023.   

Open Source

The Road to embedded world ’23: Berkely, California, RISC-V - Blog

January 30, 2023

I remember being in kindergarten and watching the Challenger rip apart 73 seconds after launch. There were two classes in the room that day watching the TV in shock, and me, with the wonder of what is really out there. Haruki Murakami in Kafka on the Shore sums up perfectly how I perceive space. “Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
 

Open Source

RISC-V Announces First New Specifications of 2022, Adding to 16 Ratified in 2021 - News

June 22, 2022

RISC-V International announced its first four specification and extension approvals of 2022 – Efficient Trace for RISC-V (E-Trace), RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), RISC-V Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specifications, and the RISC-V Zmmul multiply-only extension.

IoT

Renesas Pioneers RISC-V Technology With RZ/Five General-Purpose MPUs Based on 64-Bit RISC-V CPU Core - News

March 03, 2022

Renesas Electronics Corporation's RZ/Five employs the Andes AX45MP, based on the RISC-V CPU instruction set architecture (ISA). The RZ/Five augments Renesas’ previously available Arm® CPU core-based MPUs, expanding customer options and providing more flexibility in the product development process.

Processing

Using Imagination Around Arm & RISC-V - Podcast

December 17, 2021

Champions of the open-standard ISA expect it to start displacing competitive offerings en masse over the next few years. While that remains to be seen, the introduction of custom RISC-V instruction extensions, the formation industry-specific working groups, and advances in tools are redefining the technology’s true winners.

Processing

SiFive Announces Licensable RISC-V P650 Processor IP Core - Blog

December 08, 2021

San Francisco-based fabless semiconductor company SiFive has launched its second high-performance processor P650 claiming to be the fastest licensable RISC-V processor IP core in the market. Within 6 months of the initial launch of the P550, the manufacturer realized the need for some significant upgrades in terms of the performance directly linking to the clock speed frequency.

Open Source

RISC-V International Ratifies 15 New Specifications - News

December 06, 2021

 

RISC-V members ratified the Vector, Scalar Cryptography, and Hypervisor specifications, which will help unlock new opportunities for developers creating RISC-V applications for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), connected and autonomous cars, data centers, and beyond.