ExtremeTech

RISC vs. CISC Is the Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86, ARM CPUs

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...
csis.org

What RISC-V Means for the Future of Chip Development

Many believe that the future of chip design—and the development of new technologies like next-generation artificial intelligence (AI)—will depend on RISC-V architecture. RISC-V is an open standard ...
ExtremeTech

RISC rides again: New RISC-V architecture hopes to battle ARM and x86 by being totally open source

A new instruction set by the original creator of MIPS aims to reinvent the ultra-low power, high-efficiency processor -- and to do so with an architecture that's fundamentally open and available to ...
Forbes

RISC-V’s Ascent Could Reshape The Global Compute Landscape

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. For decades, chip architectures have been dominated by a pair of ...

AI’s 2026 dark horse will be open-standard chips

Processors featuring the free RISC-V architecture account for $52 bln in sales, or just a tenth of the total. That’s set to ...
Business Insider

SEALSQ RISC-V Chips Adoption is Predicted to Get AI Boost Making it a Viable Competitor to Traditional GPUs

RISC-V technology is revolutionizing the microchip industry, challenging established giants and paving the way for transformative changes. By the end of 2022, the industry had already embraced over 10 ...
Dark Reading

Security Concerns Plague Emerging Chip Architecture

An emerging chip architecture gaining traction in smartphones, automotive technologies, and other electronics may find adoption stymied by security concerns. Using x86 and ARM processors for hardware ...
SiliconANGLE

RISC-V guardian SiFive unveils new chip designs for low-powered AI at the edge

Open-source semiconductor design company SiFive Inc. today unveiled its latest chip design blueprints, the SiFive Intelligence XM Series, saying these are the first based on its RISC-V architecture to ...
CRN

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

Qualcomm said Wednesday that it has acquired Ventana Micro Systems, a startup that was focused on developing server CPU ...
Business Wire

Esperanto Technologies and NEC Cooperate on Initiative to Advance Next Generation RISC-V Chips and Software Solutions for HPC

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esperanto Technologies™, a leading developer of RISC-V chips and software for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced ...
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 ...
SiliconANGLE

RISC-V chip startup Akeana launches with $100M+ in funding

Akeana USA Inc., a startup that develops chips based on the RISC-V processor architecture, launched today with more than $100 million in initial funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that ...