Semiconductor Engineering

Does Your RISC-V Core Meet The Standard?

Verifying an extensible processor is more than a one-step process, especially when software compatibility is important.
Hackaday

The Inner Workings Of The Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit

In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the ...

This chip maker mounted a challenge to Intel's Pentium range - so AMD bought it

AMD’s K6 range drew heavily from the Nx686 design and when launched in 1997 mounted a serious challenge to Intel's Pentium dominance. The microprocessor was specifically designed to integrate with ...
Digi Times

Qualcomm, Google bet big on RISC-V for AI dominance

As AI drives demand for advanced computing infrastructure, chip architectures are at a crossroads. While proprietary instruction set architectures (ISAs) like x86 and Arm dominate the market, their ...
Morningstar

S2C, MachineWare, and Andes Introduce RISC-V Co-Emulation Solution to Accelerate Chip Development

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- S2C, MachineWare, and Andes Technology today announced a collaborative co-emulation solution designed to address the increasing complexity of ...
Business Wire

proteanTecs and Akeana Announce Joint Initiative to Drive Next-Generation RISC-V Processor Performance

HAIFA, Israel & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--proteanTecs®, a global leader in deep data solutions for electronics health and performance monitoring, and Akeana, a provider of high-performance ...
insideHPC

d-Matrix and Andes Collaborate on RISC-V Accelerator for AI Inference

ST. LOUIS (SC25) — Nov 17, 2025 – Generative AI inference compute company d-Matrix and Andes Technology , a supplier of RISC-V processor cores, announced that d-Matrix has selected the AndesCore ...
Forbes

The ISA Wars Have Ended And The Heterogeneous CPU Era Has Arrived

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...
EDN

RISC-V Summit spurs new round of automotive support

The adoption of RISC-V with open standards in automotive applications continues to accelerate, leveraging its flexibility and scalability, particularly benefiting the automotive industry’s shift to ...
Seeking Alpha

Arteris and Alibaba DAMO Academy Extend Partnership to Accelerate High-Performance RISC-V SoC Designs

CAMPBELL, Calif., Oct. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arteris, Inc. (AIP), a leading provider of system IP that accelerates system-on-chip (SoC) creation, today announced an expansion of the ...
The Next Platform

Condor Technology To Fly “Cuzco” RISC-V CPU Into The Datacenter

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and ...
Morningstar

SiFive’s New RISC-V IP Combines Scalar, Vector and Matrix Compute to Accelerate AI from the Far Edge IoT to the Data Center

SiFive’s New RISC-V IP Combines Scalar, Vector and Matrix Compute to Accelerate AI from the Far Edge IoT to the Data Center New X100 Series Joins Upgraded X200, X300 and XM IP to Address Growing ...