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RISC-V Vector Processing: A New Era in Computing Efficiency

The computing industry has reached a significant milestone with the ratification of the 1.0 RISC-V Vector Specification. This development marks the beginning of a new era in computing efficiency, as ...
Forbes

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) ...
Business Wire

Imperas Delivers First RISC-V Simulator for New Vector and Bit Manipulation Specifications to Lead Customers

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in virtual platforms and high-performance software simulation, today announced the delivery of its updated simulator for the RISC-V ...
Forbes

SiFive Expands Its RISC-V Intelligence Family To Address Exploding AI Workloads

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. SiFive just announced an array of new additions to its ...
Business Insider

Learn the Latest on RISC-V and Vector Processing at All Six Andes Technology’s Presentations at the 2020 RISC-V Summit

San Jose, CA, Nov. 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and founding Premier member ...
Business Wire

SiFive Performance P550 Core Sets New Standard as Highest Performance RISC-V Processor IP

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions, today launched the new SiFive Performance family of processors. The SiFive Performance ...
AppleInsider

New Geekbench update adds RISC-V and improves ARM Extension Support

Benchmarking tool Geekbench has been updated to version 6.4, seeing added support for RISC-V Vector Extensions and Arm Scalable Matrix Extensions. Geekbench is a highly-used benchmark tool, providing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Evaluating and Calibrating Performance On RISC-V Vector Processors (KTH, LLNL, BSC)

A new technical paper, “Closer in the Gap: Towards Portable Performance on RISC-V Vector Processors,” was published by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Lawrence Livermore National ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

RISC-V International Association is developing a number of optional extensions intended to support specific industries as well as the overall computing industry in new and unprecedented ways. Three ...
Ars Technica

SiFive’s brand-new P550 is one of the world’s fastest RISC-V CPUs

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Vectorization And Potential for HPC

A new technical paper titled “Test-driving RISC-V Vector hardware for HPC” was published by researchers at University of Edinburgh. “Whilst the RISC-V Vector extension (RVV) has been ratified, at the ...
VentureBeat

RISC-V grows open source processor membership 130% in 2021

RISC-V International said it has grown during the pandemic as its RISC-V open source processor membership popped 130% in 2021. The nonprofit group's membership has grown from a ragtag group of feisty ...