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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
InfoQ

Optimizing Custom Workloads with RISC-V

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...
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 ...
HotHardware

NVIDIA Confirms CUDA Support Is Coming To RISC-V And It's A Huge Deal

Old-timers might recall the idea of "RISC" as a once-upon-a-time processor design ideology. RISC processors were mostly used for servers from Sun Microsystems, DEC, and other companies of a bygone era ...
TechSpot

Nvidia unlocks CUDA for RISC-V processors, opening up its AI ecosystem

What just happened? Since its introduction in 2006, CUDA has been a proprietary technology running exclusively on Nvidia's own GPU hardware. Now, the GeForce maker appears ready to open CUDA to at ...
Digi Times

China accelerates RISC-V localization with new Shanghai research hub

China is ramping up its RISC-V ambitions with the launch of the Shanghai Open Source Computing Research Institute, unveiled at the 5th RISC-V Summit China on July 17, 2025. As the country's second key ...
CoinDesk

Risc Zero’s 'Boundless' Incentivized Testnet Goes Live

Boundless, the decentralized zero-knowledge (ZK) compute marketplace powered by RISC Zero, has launched its incentivized testnet (which it is calling “Mainnet Beta”) on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer ...
SiliconANGLE

GlobalFoundries buys RISC-V chip firm MIPS to accelerate its AI ambitions

U.S. chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. is moving into the RISC-V processor business after announcing plans to buy the chip developer MIPS Technology LLC for an undisclosed price. GlobalFoundries said it ...