Design And Reuse

RISC-V Pivots from Academia to Industrial Heavyweight

According to the organization’s 2025 Annual Report, RISC-V’s market share is expected to grow from 2.5% in 2021 to 33.7% by 2031. This rapid growth is driven by countries like China and India using ...
Forbes

The RISC-V Architecture Secures Smartwatches With Google And Qualcomm

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 ...
eeNews Europe

The program for Elektor’s online conference on RISC-V is now online

Elektor Academy Pro will host a full-day online conference on 15 April 2026 on the potential of RISC-V-based solutions.
Geeky Gadgets

The future of open-source computing: How RISC-V is changing the PC industry

The RISC-V architecture is making significant strides in the PC industry, signaling a new era of innovation and competition. While its performance currently trails behind older Intel processors and ...
VentureBeat

RISC-V grows globally as an alternative to Arm and its license fees

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More ARM is the most successful microprocessor architecture on the planet, ...
TweakTown

Tenstorrent launches new Wormhole high-performance AI chip using RISC-V architecture

Tenstorrent has just launched its new Wormhole high-performance AI chip featuring the RISC-V architecture, with chip legend Jim Keller's fingerprints all over the Wormhole AI chip. The new Tenstorrent ...
VentureBeat

How RISC-V is creating a globally neutral, open source processor architecture

Arm dominates the microprocessor architecture business, as its licensees have shipped 150 billion chips to date and are shipping 50 billion more in the next two years. But RISC-V is challenging that ...
AppleInsider

Apple investigating RISC-V instruction set architecture, job listing shows

A job listing posted to Apple's website this week reveals the company is researching RISC-V instruction set architecture solutions, suggesting future in-house chip designs might implement the ...
TechSpot

DeepComputing announces new tablet based on the RISC-V architecture

In context: After introducing the world's first RISC-V laptop, DeepComputing is now launching what is expected to be the first fully-fledged mobile platform based on the open ISA. The company is ...
SiliconANGLE

Arm rival SiFive raises $175M to accelerate development of its alternative RISC-V chip architecture

SiFive Inc., a computer chip startup that’s developing processor technology based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, said today it has raised a hefty $175 million in a late-stage ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Differentiation And Architecture Licenses In RISC‑V

I was discussing with a colleague about the concept of architecture license in RISC-V. I realized that, in the open-source world, it can be a little tricky to grasp. In a traditional processor IP ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Extend The ‘Unscalable’ RISC Architectures

A couple of years ago, Erik McClure (a Microsoft software developer, at the time) published a blog entitled RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable. This blog was really quite interesting and made some very ...