32/64-bit Embedded CPUs: The Third Era Begins
From proprietary to open source architectures, the embedded CPU and its associated business models have evolved — and so has…
Trade War Concerns Push RISC-V to Move HQ
Members vote unanimously to move HQ to Switzerland as they face challenges from customers about source of IP
Arm Opens Instruction Set Architecture
After decades, Arm has finally decided to allow licensees to build their own custom instructions, which are often useful to…
Can Nanotubes Take Us Beyond Moore’s Law?
MIT's work on carbon nanotube field-effect transistors validates a promising path towards practical beyond-silicon electronic systems.
Chinese OEMs Look to Risc-V to Replace Arm MCUs
The microcontrollers are direct replacements for Arm MCUs, aimed at Chinese OEMs who are being cut off from getting Arm…
RISC-V: Not Just an Academic Project
The recent RISC-V Workshop in Zurich gave us a glimpse of where we are in its evolution
RISC-V Adoption to get a Boost from FreeStart
The company has implemented a program that enables designers to try RISC-V for free using its N22 core, with no…
Imagination GPU Joins SiFive RISC-V Design Ecosystem
There are not a lot of other options for GPU IP that is not tied to a specific vendor
Edge Intelligence the Focus at Embedded World
Nothing is beyond the limits of our imagination anymore, and what we are used to seeing in spy movies needs…
RISC-V: The Road Ahead
The open-source architecture faces a long road through software standards from its beachhead as an SoC controller to use as…