SiFive's oversubscribed series G round of financing suggests the industry's historical caution around the RISC-V architecture ...

Nothing ever made is truly perfect and indeed, CPU architectures like x86, RISC-V, ARM, and PowerPC all have their own ...

Today, Google and Qualcomm announced an extension of their partnership to bring RISC-V-based systems-on-chips (SoCs) to market with support for Wear OS, a version of Android for smartwatches and ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has long been one of the world’s largest consumers of supercomputing capacity. With computing power of more than 200 petaflops, or 200 billion floating-point ...

Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...

Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture. The funding comes at a time when RISC-V is showing greater momentum as an ...

Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy efficient than the state-of-the-art ...

However, Arm has tremendous leverage here. For example, if Apple developed chips on another ISA, it would cause catastrophic ...